Valley View Estates Colonia, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Mission census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78572. The Survey maps it on the Mission quadrangle.

Valley View Estates Colonia within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

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 Mission quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Mission quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

124 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Valley View Estates Colonia between 1993 and 2016, burning about 964 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	55
Debris and open burning	42
Arson/incendiarism	22
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
8 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	LUNCH
5 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	TORTUGA
25 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRYAN RD FIRE
23 August 2005	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	MOOREFIELD
18 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	MADERO
17 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	SCOTT LANE 2
10 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BENTSEN ROAD FIRE
10 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	SCOTT LANE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Valley View Estates Colonia: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Bleakley	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
	Madero	Clay	Unknown

Every working 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
Sharyland	0.3 miles	11
Sun Valley Colonia	1.1 miles	11
Leona Colonia	1.1 miles	11
Leslie Colonia	1.1 miles	11
Bentsen Colonia	1.3 miles	11
Mata Colonia	1.3 miles	11
Kane	1.3 miles	11
Stewart Place Colonia	1.4 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2011550. 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.