Yost Road 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 78586. The Survey maps it on the La Paloma quadrangle.

Yost Road 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.

1929 USGS La Paloma quadrangle1:24000
1936 USGS La Paloma quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS La Paloma quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS La Paloma quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

56 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Yost Road Colonia between 1993 and 2020, burning about 729 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined	26
Debris and open burning	17
Arson/incendiarism	8
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	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
1 August 2011	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	SAN BENITO TIRE FIRE
26 July 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BOOK
24 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE MUTUAL AID
14 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE MUTUAL AID
1 July 2005	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	LINK
9 June 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	RANCHITO
13 June 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Texas Refuge Complex	2 PILES
30 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	83 COMMAND

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
El Camino Angosto Colonia	0.8 miles	13
Pennsylvania Avenue Colonia	0.8 miles	13
El Camino Angosto	0.8 miles	13
Expressway 83-77 Colonia	0.9 miles	15
East Stenger Street Colonia	1.0 miles	15
Graham Colonia	1.1 miles	15
San Benito	1.4 miles	13
Leal Colonia	1.7 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010243. 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.