Stockholm, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Hargill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78569. The Survey maps it on the Lasara quadrangle.

Stockholm within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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 Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Lasara quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

28 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Stockholm between 1999 and 2020, burning about 208 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 burning	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
13 September 2009	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
4 August 2009	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
27 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
31 May 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	NOSEDIVE
25 April 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRUSH FIRE
21 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	OTHA N/O 2
12 April 2006	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
8 March 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE 1425 CANAL

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
Jessups Colonia	4.8 miles	9
Monte Alto	5.0 miles	9
La Hacienda Colonia	6.4 miles	9
La Villa	6.6 miles	9
George Lookingbill Number 2 Colonia	6.7 miles	9
George Lookingbill Number 1 Colonia	6.8 miles	9
El Monte Colonia	6.9 miles	9
Bar Number 3 Colonia	7.0 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034713. 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.