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Rockaway Country Sites Colonia, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Eagle Pass census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78852. The Survey maps it on the Eagle Pass East quadrangle.

Rockaway Country Sites Colonia within Maverick County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

32 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Rockaway Country Sites Colonia between 2008 and 2011, burning about 637 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 May 2011Arson/incendiarism500 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOMMANCHE RANCH
9 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maverick County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rockaway Country Sites Colonia: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Eagle Pass Fluorspar MillFluorine-FluoriteProducer

Every working recorded in Maverick County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Chula Vista School Block Colonia1.0 miles6
Chula Vista 1-5 Colonia1.2 miles6
Morales Number 2 East Colonia1.9 miles6
Los Jardines Verdes Colonia2.0 miles6
Loma Linda Number 1 Colonia2.1 miles6
Zamora Lands Colonia2.1 miles6
Las Brisas Colonia2.2 miles6
Los Guajillos Colonia2.2 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2011379. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.