Siesta Shores 1 Colonia, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Zapata census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78076. The Survey maps it on the Zapata SE quadrangle.

Siesta Shores 1 Colonia within Zapata County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1949 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Zapata quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Zapata SE quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Zapata quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

104 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Siesta Shores 1 Colonia between 2005 and 2019, burning about 537 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	64
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Debris and open burning	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
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
13 September 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONTROLLED BURNING
6 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MEDINA/GRASS FIRE
5 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
3 August 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE ACROSS LIBRARY
3 August 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINCOLN AND 10TH STREET
3 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MEDINA/GRASS FIRE
23 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SANTA MARIA GRASS FIRE
19 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PENA LN. VACANT LOT GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Zapata 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
Siesta Shores	0.2 miles	10
Siesta Shores Section A Colonia	0.4 miles	10
Siesta Shores 3 Colonia	0.4 miles	10
Lago Halcon A Colonia	0.6 miles	10
Falcon Lake	0.7 miles	10
Lago Halcon B Colonia	0.7 miles	10
Falcon Lake Estates	0.8 miles	10
Black Bass	1.1 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010660. 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.