Bakers Crossing, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Del Rio Northwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78837. It lies near Hudson Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Bakers Crossing quadrangle. It stands 1,516 feet above sea level.

Bakers Crossing within Val Verde County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1944 USGS Baker Crossing quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Bakers Crossing quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Comstock quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Bakers Crossing in 2011, burning about 19 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
Natural	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
15 August 2011	Natural	18 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HARDIN FIRE
2 May 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BAKER'S CROSSING FIRE

Every fire recorded in Val Verde 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
Juno	13.2 miles	6
Lull	16.4 miles	7
Shumla	18.2 miles	7
Corner Windmill	18.2 miles	6
Comstock	19.2 miles	7
Loma Alta	20.0 miles	7
Vinegarone	20.5 miles	7
Langtry	24.2 miles	8

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 Q16163847

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 1377969. 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.