Santa Catarina, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Rio Grande City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78591. The Survey maps it on the La Gloria quadrangle.

Santa Catarina within Starr County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 10 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.

1938 USGS Sal Colorada quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS La Gloria quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Encino quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Encino quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

12 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Santa Catarina between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,272 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	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
24 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	N 755
27 June 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	141 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	AGUA NUEVA
23 May 2005	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	TWIN TOWERS
7 April 2005	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
25 April 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	70 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	SAN BLAS
14 February 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	MONTE CRISTO 2
12 February 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,200 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	ALANIZ 2
28 December 2007	Debris and open burning	20 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	ALANIZ

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Starr 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
Robberson	0.6 miles	10
Santa Anna	1.1 miles	10
La Gloria	5.4 miles	10
Old Santa Elena	7.1 miles	11
Arkansas City	7.6 miles	11
San Isidro	7.8 miles	11
El Centro	7.8 miles	11
Gloria Colonia	8.3 miles	11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Santa Catarina	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7419275	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379027. 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.