Victory Place Colonia, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Falfurrias census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78355. The Survey maps it on the Falfurrias quadrangle.

Victory Place Colonia within Brooks County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1921 USGS Falfurrias quadrangle1:125000
1956 USGS Laredo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Falfurrias quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Falfurrias quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

76 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Victory Place Colonia between 2008 and 2018, burning about 4,615 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	24
Debris and open burning	22
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Smoking	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
28 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BAIL OUT
9 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	306 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PREMONT COMPLEX
18 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	DAVID HORNSBY'S RESIDENCE
17 August 2011	Debris and open burning	1,300 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DCP & HORNSBY FIRE
14 August 2011	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR229
1 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CO. 401 BROOKS CO.
9 June 2011	Smoking	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	SHORT GRASS 1418
29 June 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CO RD 1118 FM 772

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brooks 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 Victory Place Colonia: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Halite. 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
	Gyp Hill Quarry	Gypsum-Anhydrite, Halite	Past Producer	1911, 1942

Every working recorded in Brooks 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
Falfurrias	1.0 miles	8
Cantu Addition	1.9 miles	8
Cantu Addition Number 2 Colonia	1.9 miles	8
Cantu Addition Number 1 Colonia	1.9 miles	8
Rush Addition Colonia	2.1 miles	7
Airport Road Addition Colonia	2.9 miles	7
Airport Road Addition	3.4 miles	7
La India	4.4 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010308. 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.