Valle Escondido Colonia, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Brownsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78521. The Survey maps it on the East Brownsville quadrangle.

Valle Escondido Colonia within Cameron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1930 USGS East Brownsville quadrangle1:24000
1936 USGS East Brownsville quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS East Brownsville quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1955 USGS Fort Brown quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

90 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Valle Escondido Colonia between 1995 and 2019, burning about 2,115 acres in total. None started naturally. 26 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	36
Arson/incendiarism	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
4 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	120 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	SABAL PALMS N
31 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	EARLY 2
25 August 2004	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	SALINAS
24 August 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	SABAL PALM
24 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	EARLY
2 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	DRY RESACA
14 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	LOPEZ 2
11 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Texas Refuge Complex	LOPEZ

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cameron County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Valle Escondido Colonia: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Centex Cement Corporation Operation	Clay	Producer

Every working 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
Valle Hermosa Colonia	0.3 miles	11
South Point	0.5 miles	11
Alabama-Arkansas Colonia	0.8 miles	11
South Point Colonia	0.9 miles	11
Cielito Lindo Colonia	1.5 miles	16
Villa Pancho Colonia	1.6 miles	16
Villa Pancho	1.8 miles	16
Jaime Lake Colonia	2.0 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010232. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.