Antelope Crossing, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Fort Cavazos census division. It stands on Buttermilk Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Hood quadrangle.

Antelope Crossing within Coryell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1894 USGS Gatesville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Fort Hood quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Fort Hood quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Fort Hood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Fort Hood quadrangle1:62500
1985 USGS Temple quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1995 USGS Fort Hood quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

37 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Antelope Crossing between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,207 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Debris and open burning	15
Equipment and vehicle use	4
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
5 September 2015	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	4650 CR 142
6 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	5600 CR 142
4 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	704181
4 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	704201
28 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 580 (180728071)
16 July 2019	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7526 CR 142
28 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CC
27 June 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	9710 FM 116

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coryell 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
Jackson Crossing	1.8 miles	15
Pidcoke	2.4 miles	16
Middle Crossing	4.7 miles	15
Saint Elijah Village	4.8 miles	15
House Crossing	5.4 miles	15
Topsey	6.3 miles	15
Comanche Village III	7.7 miles	15
Comanche Village I	8.0 miles	15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122545462

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379350. 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.