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West Alto Bonito Colonia, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the La Grulla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78582. The Survey maps it on the La Grulla quadrangle. 615 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 164 feet above sea level.

West Alto Bonito Colonia within Starr County

Population over time

2 figures

West Alto Bonito Colonia fell from 696 to 615 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010696
2020615-81 (-12%)

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.

Fires near this place

481 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 481 fires within 5 miles of West Alto Bonito Colonia between 1997 and 2020, burning about 5,808 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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 burning304
Missing data/not specified/undetermined144
Equipment and vehicle use13
Arson/incendiarism12
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service86 OLD CASITA RD
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Texas Refuge ComplexHAY
7 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBENITO ST.
6 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD CASITA RD.
6 September 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6154 FM 1430 RD
5 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceAURORA ST.
5 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2075 N FM 2360 RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Starr 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 West Alto Bonito Colonia: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Alto Bonito PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerCaliche
Nordmeyer Incorporated OperationsClayProducer
Alto Bonito Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lopez Ready Mix PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Starr 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Valle Vista Number 1 Colonia0.4 miles11
Valle Vista Number 2 Colonia0.5 miles11
Villareal Colonia1.1 miles11
Alto Bonito Heights Colonia1.2 miles11
Alto Bonito1.3 miles11
Rivereno Colonia1.3 miles11
E Lopez Colonia1.4 miles11
Longoria Colonia1.4 miles11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q6166875The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010759. 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.