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West Haven Colonia, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Edinburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78541. The Survey maps it on the Edinburg quadrangle.

West Haven 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.

Fires near this place

231 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 231 fires within 5 miles of West Haven Colonia between 2004 and 2016, burning about 528 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined109
Debris and open burning94
Arson/incendiarism12
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Smoking1
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
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot 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.

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2011525. 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.