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San Juan South Estates Colonia, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the McAllen-Pharr census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78589. The Survey maps it on the Pharr quadrangle.

San Juan South Estates Colonia within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

917 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 917 fires within 5 miles of San Juan South Estates Colonia between 1996 and 2018, burning about 1,383 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 14 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
Debris and open burning851
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Power generation/transmission/distribution19
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRASH FIRE
8 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service10-728
7 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
7 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service09-671
5 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRASH FIRE
4 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-656

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo 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
Lantana Colonia0.5 miles14
San Juan0.9 miles14
San Juan East Colonia1.2 miles14
Milagro Estates Colonia1.3 miles14
Sun Valley Estates Number 1 Colonia1.3 miles14
Miller Resub Lot A Colonia1.6 miles14
Plumosa Village Colonia1.6 miles14
Country Living Estates Colonia1.7 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010882. 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.