Valle Alto Number 2 Colonia, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the McAllen-Pharr census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78557. The Survey maps it on the Las Milpas quadrangle.

Valle Alto Number 2 Colonia within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 15 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 Las Milpas quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1962 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Las Milpas quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

184 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Valle Alto Number 2 Colonia between 1993 and 2019, burning about 2,400 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 62 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
Arson/incendiarism	62
Debris and open burning	57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	49
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	2
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
6 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	FLEA'S
22 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	MARI
8 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	ANAYA
7 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	S BENTSEN PALM FIRE
4 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	VELA WOODS N
30 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	MARINOFF
3 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	HIDALGO3
29 August 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	COTTAM7

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
Valle Alto Number 1 Colonia	0.2 miles	15
Sanchez Ranch Colonia	0.5 miles	15
Hidalgo	1.6 miles	10
Fays Corner	1.8 miles	15
Las Fuentes Colonia	1.8 miles	15
Las Brisas del Sur Colonia	1.9 miles	15
Beto's Acres Colonia	2.0 miles	15
Los Ranchitos Number 1-3 Colonia	2.0 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2011544. 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.