Spark's Addition Number 2 Colonia, Texas

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.

• 1896 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1908 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1941 USGS Clint quadrangle1:62500
• 1945 USGS Clint quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Clint NW quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1964 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000
• 1983 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1995 USGS Clint NW quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Spark's Addition Number 2 Colonia between 2011 and 2018, burning about 202 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Calcutta Colonia
• Grijalva Gardens Colonia
• Agua Dulce Colonia
• Agua Dulce Number 4 Colonia
• Delip Colonia
• Gurdev Colonia

Every fire recorded in El Paso County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Spark's Addition Number 2 Colonia: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Every working recorded in El Paso County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010006. 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.