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Val Verde Park Colonia, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Del Rio census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78840. The Survey maps it on the Del Rio SE quadrangle.

Val Verde Park Colonia within Val Verde County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

Fires near this place

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Val Verde Park Colonia between 2006 and 2020, burning about 4,154 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
27 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,090 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMOODY
13 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,200 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4 SILO
28 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined360 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTAR
9 March 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 March 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 February 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,500 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWHITE FIELDS
8 January 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePASIANO #8
3 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Val Verde 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Val Verde Park0.4 miles7
Val Verde Park Number 2 Colonia0.6 miles7
Del Rio3.1 miles7
Johnstone4.3 miles7
Owens Addition Number 2 Colonia4.7 miles7
Owens Addition Number 1 Colonia4.8 miles7
Rio Bravo Colonia4.9 miles7
Payment Colonia4.9 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010778. 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.