Sandy Bluff Colonia, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Orange Grove-Sandia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78383. The Survey maps it on the Orange Grove quadrangle.

Sandy Bluff Colonia within Jim Wells County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys

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.

1950 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Orange Grove quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Orange Grove quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

223 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 223 fires within 5 miles of Sandy Bluff Colonia between 2006 and 2020, burning about 3,574 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	103
Debris and open burning	81
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Other causes	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
8 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM JEFF MYERS
8 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM624
8 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 624 AND CR 353
6 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 304
5 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1100 FM 1540
27 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 September 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY 359 AND 227
23 September 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 70

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jim Wells 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
Rolling Acres Colonia	0.2 miles	8
Casa Blanca	1.9 miles	12
K-Bar-J Estates Colonia	1.9 miles	8
Orange Grove Villa Colonia	2.2 miles	8
K-Bar Ranch	2.2 miles	8
El Camino Al Lago Colonia	2.5 miles	8
Silver Spur Estates Colonia	2.7 miles	8
Hodges Addition Colonia	2.8 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2011417. 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.