Universal Estates Colonia, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the McAllen-Pharr census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78577. The Survey maps it on the Pharr quadrangle.

Universal Estates Colonia within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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.

1914 USGS San Juan quadrangle1:48000
1914 USGS San Juan quadrangle1:62500
1916 USGS San Juan quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1949 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Pharr quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

319 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 319 fires within 5 miles of Universal Estates Colonia between 1993 and 2019, burning about 1,292 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 49 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	211
Arson/incendiarism	49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	41
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	2

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
9 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TRASH FIRE
6 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	FLEA'S
4 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	11-656
3 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TRASH FIRE
3 September 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
3 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Texas Refuge Complex	WILLOW
29 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	11-750

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
Colonia Evans	0.2 miles	14
Colonia Evans Number 2	0.2 miles	14
El Sol Colonia	0.4 miles	14
Hidalgo Park Estates Colonia	0.4 miles	15
H and B Colonia	0.4 miles	15
Palo Verde Colonia	0.4 miles	15
Villas del Valle Colonia	0.4 miles	15
La Quinta Colonia	0.6 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2011535. 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.