Tierra Bonita Colonia, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Harlingen-San Benito census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78593. The Survey maps it on the Santa Rosa quadrangle. It stands 46 feet above sea level.

Tierra Bonita Colonia within Cameron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1929 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:24000
1933 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

41 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Tierra Bonita Colonia between 1993 and 2019, burning about 1,333 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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	22
Arson/incendiarism	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Fireworks	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
3 August 1993	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	TIOCANO2
22 August 2004	Debris and open burning	41 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	RANCHITO
20 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	OTHA 2
19 August 2004	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	UNDER
10 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	52 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	RATLIFF
23 July 1997	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	NSUGAR
20 July 1997	Debris and open burning	435 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	TIOCANO
27 June 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	73

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Tierra Bonita	0.2 miles	13
Tierra Bonita Number 2 Colonia	0.4 miles	13
Santa Rosa Number 5 Colonia	0.7 miles	13
Santa Rosa Number 9 Colonia	0.8 miles	13
Santa Rosa	0.8 miles	13
El Nogal Colonia	0.8 miles	13
East Cantu Road Colonia	1.3 miles	13
Santa Rosa Number 12 Colonia	1.3 miles	13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q31555473

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010227. 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.