San Carlos Number 2 Colonia, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Laredo South-El Cenizo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78043. The Survey maps it on the Blancas Creek North quadrangle.

San Carlos Number 2 Colonia within Webb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1933 USGS Becerra Creek quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Laredo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1980 USGS Blancas Creek North quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS San Ygnacio quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

14 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of San Carlos Number 2 Colonia between 2016 and 2017, burning about 27 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Debris and open burning	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
9 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	EL ROCICO
11 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY 59
4 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	MILARGO
23 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PUEBLO NUEVO BRUSH FIRE
26 March 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	BOTELLO RD
21 March 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	MILAGRO
7 December 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	JUDITH
6 November 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	ALVARADO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webb 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
Ranchitos 359 East Colonia	0.1 miles	8
San Carlos Number 1 Colonia	0.3 miles	8
Laredo Ranchettes Colonia	0.3 miles	8
Laredo Ranchettes	0.4 miles	8
Tanquecitos South Acres Colonia	0.6 miles	9
Los Altos Colonia	1.0 miles	9
D-5 Acres Colonia	1.0 miles	9
Las Blancas Colonia	1.3 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010725. 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.