Valle Hermoso Estates Colonia, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Mission census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78541. The Survey maps it on the Alton quadrangle.

Valle Hermoso Estates Colonia within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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.

1940 USGS Monte Christo quadrangle1:62500, 2 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 Alton quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Alton quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

123 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Valle Hermoso Estates Colonia between 2003 and 2016, burning about 374 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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	54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50
Arson/incendiarism	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
24 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
9 August 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
8 August 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
21 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Texas Refuge Complex	ALTON
13 August 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
7 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MUT DEPOT AND SPRAGUE
4 July 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

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
Plantation Oaks North Colonia	0.2 miles	11
Los Terrazos Colonia	0.3 miles	11
Twin Roads Colonia	0.4 miles	11
Ware Colony Colonia	0.4 miles	11
Ware West Colonia	0.4 miles	11
107 West Colonia	0.6 miles	11
Calma Estates Colonia Number 2	0.6 miles	11
Calma Estates Colonia Number 3	0.6 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2011546. 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.