Westdale Estates Number 1 Colonia, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Orange Grove-Sandia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78372. The Survey maps it on the Orange Grove quadrangle.

Westdale Estates Number 1 Colonia within Jim Wells County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys

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.

1950 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Orange Grove quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Orange Grove quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

216 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 216 fires within 5 miles of Westdale Estates Number 1 Colonia between 2007 and 2020, burning about 1,421 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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	102
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	88
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	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
6 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 304
27 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
25 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	5 MILES WEST ON 624
20 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	417 JENIFER LOOP
16 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENRY BARAJAS
14 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	649 CR 350
14 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	COUNTY ROAD 308
13 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	362 CR 323

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jim Wells County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Westdale Estates Number 1 Colonia: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Reynolds Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mosser Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Wright Caliche Pit & Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Jim Wells 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
Westdale	0.2 miles	8
Westdale Estates Number 2 Colonia	0.3 miles	8
Westdale Estates Number 4 Colonia	0.5 miles	8
West Orange Estates Colonia	0.5 miles	8
Colony Estates Colonia	0.6 miles	8
Westdale Estates Number 3 Colonia	0.7 miles	8
Johns Valley Colonia	1.2 miles	8
Orange Blossom Estates Colonia	1.4 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2011380. 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.