Vertress Colonia, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Southeast Hidalgo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78537. The Survey maps it on the San Juan SE quadrangle.

Vertress Colonia within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 14 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 McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS San Juan SE quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS San Juan SE quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

301 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 301 fires within 5 miles of Vertress Colonia between 1993 and 2019, burning about 1,728 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 28 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	242
Arson/incendiarism	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	1
Smoking	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
8 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	10-728
4 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TRASH FIRE
29 September 2009	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	09-739
25 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ILLEGAL BURNING
25 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	LA COMA 2
21 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	94 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	TAORMINA
21 September 2008	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
9 North-East FM 493 Colonia	0.8 miles	14
South Donna Colonia	1.3 miles	16
Tierra Bella Colonia	1.4 miles	16
River Road Colonia	1.5 miles	16
Tierra Prieta Colonia	1.6 miles	16
Schroeder Colonia	2.1 miles	16
Scissors	2.1 miles	16
Runn	2.2 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2011552. 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.