Val Verde Park Number 2 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 Number 2 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.

1943 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Del Rio SE quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Val Verde Park Number 2 Colonia between 2008 and 2020, burning about 1,094 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
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
27 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,090 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MOODY
9 March 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 March 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
8 January 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PASIANO #8
13 January 2008	Smoking	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Val Verde Park	0.2 miles	7
Val Verde Park Colonia	0.6 miles	7
Johnstone	3.7 miles	7
Del Rio	3.8 miles	7
Owens Addition Number 2 Colonia	5.4 miles	7
Owens Addition Number 1 Colonia	5.4 miles	7
Rio Bravo Colonia	5.4 miles	7
Payment Colonia	5.6 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010728. 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.