Southern Valley Estates Colonia, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Southeast Hidalgo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78570. It lies near Arroyo Anacuitas. The Survey maps it on the Mercedes quadrangle.

Southern Valley Estates Colonia within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Mercedes quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Mercedes quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

115 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Southern Valley Estates Colonia between 1993 and 2019, burning about 759 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 44 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
Arson/incendiarism	44
Debris and open burning	43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Smoking	3
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Other causes	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
27 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	OTHL CANAL
29 August 2006	Smoking	2.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	SMOKEY JOE'S
25 August 2002	Smoking	under an acre	South Texas Refuge Complex	ROADSIDE
24 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	CORNER
23 August 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	2556
23 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	LA FERIA
23 August 2004	Smoking	3.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	9 MILE
19 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	SANTA MARIA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo 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
Sunrise Colonia	0.2 miles	13
La Milpa Colonia	0.3 miles	13
C A Conner Colonia	0.6 miles	10
De Anda Colonia	1.0 miles	13
Boyd Colonia Number 1	1.0 miles	10
Eastland Park Colonia	1.1 miles	10
Colonia Saenz	1.1 miles	13
Colonia George	1.2 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010629. 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.