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South Grove Street Colonia, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Uvalde census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78801. It stands on Taylor Slough. The Survey maps it on the Uvalde quadrangle.

South Grove Street Colonia within Uvalde County

On record in South Grove Street Colonia

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

154 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of South Grove Street Colonia between 2006 and 2015, burning about 638 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning104
Smoking26
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
23 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2006Debris and open burning16 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2006Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2006Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Uvalde County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of South Grove Street Colonia: 1 producer, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Alamo Ready Mix Concrete OperationSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ange QuarryStone, DimensionOccurrence
Ballard and Hale OperationStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Uvalde 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
Brice Lane Colonia0.5 miles12
Vanessa Street Colonia0.6 miles12
Gonzales Colonia1.0 miles12
Uvalde1.0 miles12
Fort Inge1.7 miles12
Fort Clark Road Colonia1.8 miles12
Vanham Addition Colonia3.1 miles12
North Uvalde Colonia3.1 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010765. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.