South Point Colonia, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Brownsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78521. The Survey maps it on the Southmost quadrangle.

South Point Colonia within Cameron County

On record in South Point 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 1 record

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

Old Brulay Plantationlisted 1975 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1936 USGS Southmost quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Fort Brown quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Southmost quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

92 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of South Point Colonia between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2,294 acres in total. None started naturally. 27 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 burning	36
Arson/incendiarism	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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
4 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	120 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	SABAL PALMS N
31 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	EARLY 2
27 August 1998	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	JERONIMO 2
25 August 2004	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	SALINAS
24 August 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	SABAL PALM
24 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	EARLY
2 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	DRY RESACA
14 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	LOPEZ 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cameron County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of South Point Colonia: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Centex Cement Corporation Operation	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Cameron 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
Alabama-Arkansas Colonia	0.5 miles	11
South Point	0.5 miles	11
Valle Hermosa Colonia	0.7 miles	11
Valle Escondido Colonia	0.9 miles	16
Palm Grove	1.6 miles	11
Villa Pancho Colonia	1.7 miles	16
Villa Pancho	1.9 miles	16
Cielito Lindo Colonia	2.0 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010222. 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.