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Windsong Village Colonia, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Harlingen-San Benito census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78559. The Survey maps it on the La Feria quadrangle.

Windsong Village Colonia within Cameron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

111 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Windsong Village Colonia between 1993 and 2019, burning about 1,725 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 34 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 burning39
Arson/incendiarism34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
3 August 1993Debris and open burning10 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeTIOCANO2
24 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeCORNER
23 August 2004Arson/incendiarism30 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeLA FERIA
23 August 2004Smoking3.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge Complex9 MILE
18 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeRESACA DE LOS FRESNOS
27 July 2010Natural1.0 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeCANE
20 July 1997Debris and open burning435 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeTIOCANO
19 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeOHWC2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cameron 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 Verde Colonia0.3 miles13
Barrington Heights Colonia0.5 miles13
La Feria0.9 miles13
North La Feria Village Colonia1.3 miles13
La Feria Gardens Colonia1.4 miles13
Adams Gardens1.4 miles13
Solis Colonia1.5 miles13
Solis1.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010241. 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.