Villa Estates Colonia, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Sullivan City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78595. It stands on Kathy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sullivan City quadrangle.

Villa 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.

1949 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Garcias quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Sullivan City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Sullivan City quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

228 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 228 fires within 5 miles of Villa Estates Colonia between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,167 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 17 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	124
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	67
Arson/incendiarism	17
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 2015	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PIPELINE ROAD
7 September 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BENITO ST.
6 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BURNING BARREL
5 September 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	AURORA ST.
3 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PVT. LAZARO SOLIS RD.
29 September 2000	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	ROXANNE
27 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
26 September 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	OLD MILITARY RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Villa Estates Colonia: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Spaulding Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Gravel, Sand
Spaulding Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sullivan City	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel, Sand

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
Las Cuevas Colonia	0.2 miles	11
Vales Colonia	0.2 miles	11
Las Cuevas Number 2 Colonia	0.4 miles	11
Sullivan City	0.5 miles	11
Colonia San Miguel	0.5 miles	11
La Hermosa Colonia	0.5 miles	11
Colonia Rafael	0.6 miles	11
Benavides Colonia Number 2	0.6 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2011559. 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.