Sylvia 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 78599. The Survey maps it on the Mercedes quadrangle.

Sylvia 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

45 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Sylvia Colonia between 2003 and 2017, burning about 419 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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	31
Arson/incendiarism	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
7 September 2012	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	4 WEST FIRE
22 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DIAMOND FIRE
7 August 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TRASH FIRE
3 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	JOSE PORTILLO
8 July 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	12 MILE
21 July 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RUBBERISH FIRE
19 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
19 July 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

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
Olivarez Number 2 Colonia	0.1 miles	10
Olivarez Number 6 Colonia	0.2 miles	10
Olivarez Number 3 Colonia	0.3 miles	10
Tropical Farms Colonia	0.6 miles	10
Highland Memorial Park Colonia	0.8 miles	10
Country Aire Estates Number 4 Colonia	0.8 miles	10
Mid-Valley Estates Colonia	0.8 miles	10
Olivarez	1.0 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010553. 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.