| Abstract: | Colonias, which are unincorporated border settlements in the United States, have emerged in rural areas without the governance and services normally provided by local government. The expansion of colonias in the United States-Mexico border region can be traced to the rapid growth associated with the Mexican Border Industrial Program during the 1960s. This rapid population growth created a lack of affordable housing, causing new migrants in the United States to purchase rural homestead lots through a contract-for-deed program from land developers. Because of the need to keep prices affordable and the absence of effective land-use controls, these homesteads expanded into rural subdivisions, commonly called colonias, without proper infrastructure. Colonias have been identified in the four U.S. border states, with Texas having designated the majority, which numbered over 1,400 colonias in 2001. Because the region is binationally interconnected economically, politically, and socially, the phenomenon of colonias in the United States is a transborder issue. |
| Genre: | USGS Numbered Series |
| ProdID: | 86272 |
| Citation Author: | Parcher, Jean W. |
| Citation Contributing Office: | USGS Texas Water Science Center |
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| Citation LatN: | 0263000 |
| Citation LatS: | 0255000 |
| Citation LonE: | -0970000 |
| Citation LonW: | -0975500 |
| Citation Month: | Sep |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | 4 p. |
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| Citation Publisher: | Geological Survey (U.S.) |
| Citation Series: | Fact Sheet |
| Citation Series Code: | FS |
| Citation Series Number: | 2008-3079 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | CHIPS: Monitoring Colonias Along the United States-Mexico Border in Texas; 2008; FS; 2008-3079; Parcher, Jean W. |
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| Citation Year: | 2008 |
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| Text: | CHIPS: Monitoring Colonias Along the United States-Mexico Border in Texas; 2008; FS; 2008-3079; Parcher, Jean W. |
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| URL (INDEX PAGE): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2008/3079/ |
| Date Other: | Sat, 4 Oct 2008 00:00 -0500 |
| Publisher: | Geological Survey (U.S.) |
