Rutherford-Harding Addition Colonia, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the East Cameron census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78578. It lies near Loma la Cuchilla. The Survey maps it on the Laguna Vista quadrangle.

Rutherford-Harding Addition Colonia within Cameron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1929 USGS Laguna Vista quadrangle1:24000
1936 USGS Laguna Vista quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Laguna Vista quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Los Fresnos quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Rutherford-Harding Addition Colonia between 2002 and 2020, burning about 2,539 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/undetermined	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
30 July 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge	OLD FIRE
29 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge	BAHIA GRANDE
6 May 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	100/BUENA VISTA
6 April 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Texas Refuge Complex	BEACON BAY
30 March 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2,500 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	MUY GRANDE
1 March 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge	HWY 48 N/O
27 February 2006	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	48
11 January 2002	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	BAHIA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cameron 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Laguna Heights	0.1 miles	15
Laguna Vista	2.3 miles	15
Port Isabel	2.6 miles	14
Holly Beach	4.2 miles	14
Carretas Crossing	4.6 miles	15
South Padre Island	5.1 miles	14
La Aura Crossing	5.2 miles	15
Starbase	7.3 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010207. 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.