Stardust Colonia, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Brownsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78520. The Survey maps it on the West Brownsville quadrangle.

Stardust Colonia within Cameron County

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.

1930 USGS West Brownsville quadrangle1:24000
1936 USGS West Brownsville quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS West Brownsville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

79 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Stardust Colonia between 1996 and 2020, burning about 951 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35
Debris and open burning	23
Arson/incendiarism	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	1
Natural	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
13 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
9 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
4 August 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	PHILLIPS
29 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
21 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge	FISH HATCHERY
21 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	WOOD
17 August 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
7 July 2005	Debris and open burning	21 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	PHILLIPS BANCO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cameron County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Stardust Colonia: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Chromium, Manganese, Strontium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Brownsville Plant	Manganese	Producer
C E Minerals Chrome Plant	Chromium, Manganese, Strontium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite	Past Producer
Brownsville Mill	Fluorine-Fluorite	Producer
Brownsville Mill	Fluorine-Fluorite	Producer
Oglebay Norton Fluorspar Plant	Fluorine-Fluorite	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
Villa Nueva Colonia	1.4 miles	11
Villa Nueva	1.7 miles	11
Riverside	1.9 miles	11
Brownsville	2.9 miles	16
Hacienda Gardens Colonia	3.5 miles	11
Cameron Park	3.7 miles	16
Four Corners	3.7 miles	16
Cameron Park Colonia	3.9 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010224. 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.