West Highway Colonia, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Southeast Hidalgo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78596. The Survey maps it on the Donna quadrangle.

West Highway Colonia within Hidalgo County

On record in West Highway Colonia

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Cortez Hotellisted 2004 · 0.6 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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
1963 USGS Donna quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

81 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of West Highway Colonia between 2002 and 2018, burning about 824 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 burning	57
Arson/incendiarism	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2012	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	4 WEST FIRE
22 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DIAMOND FIRE
21 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	94 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	TAORMINA
9 August 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	1015
7 August 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TRASH FIRE
31 August 2010	Debris and open burning	4.6 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	VICTORIA
3 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	JOSE PORTILLO
24 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	RUBEN

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
Weslaco	0.5 miles	10
Anaqua Addition Colonia	0.8 miles	16
Rosedale Heights Colonia	0.9 miles	16
La Palma Number 2 Colonia	1.0 miles	16
Westgate Estates Colonia	1.0 miles	16
Roosevelt School Colonia	1.1 miles	10
Midway Village Colonia	1.1 miles	16
La Palma Number 1 Colonia	1.1 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2011477. 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.