San Pedro Colonia, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Brownsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78520. The Survey maps it on the West Brownsville quadrangle.

San Pedro Colonia within Cameron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1930 USGS West Brownsville quadrangle1:24000
1936 USGS West Brownsville quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS West Brownsville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

97 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of San Pedro Colonia between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,332 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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 burning	43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	33
Arson/incendiarism	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	1
Natural	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
5 September 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	RANCHITO2
3 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	RANCHITO E
3 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	RANCHITO W
6 August 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	LA ENCANTADA
31 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	1421
29 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
29 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
29 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	GARZACAUAZ

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
San Pedro	0.1 miles	11
Villa Cavazos Colonia	2.5 miles	15
Villa Cavazos	2.6 miles	15
Cavazos	2.6 miles	15
Villa Nueva	3.1 miles	11
Ismael Montalvo Colonia Number 1	3.3 miles	13
Villa Nueva Colonia	3.3 miles	11
Ismael Montalvo Colonia Number 2	3.5 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010209. 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.