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Socorro Mission Number 1 Colonia, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the El Paso East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79927. The Survey maps it on the Ysleta quadrangle. It stands 3,658 feet above sea level.

Socorro Mission Number 1 Colonia within El Paso County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Socorro Mission Number 1 Colonia in 2011, burning under an acre in total. None 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
Arson/incendiarism1

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
25 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGREEN DALE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in El Paso 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
Bovee Road Colonia0.3 miles18
Las Milpas Number 2 Colonia0.5 miles18
Las Milpas Addition Colonia0.5 miles18
Vinedo Acres Colonia0.6 miles18
La Jolla Colonia0.8 miles18
Alameda Estates Colonia0.8 miles18
Poole Colonia0.8 miles18
Wiseman Estates Colonia0.9 miles18

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.

Wikidata item Q31523909The 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 2010002. 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.