Bartholomew Crossing, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Throckmorton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76483. It lies near Lime Kiln Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Reynolds Bend quadrangle.

Bartholomew Crossing within Throckmorton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1954 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Reynolds Bend quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Haskell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

20 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Bartholomew Crossing between 1997 and 2019, burning about 14,688 acres in total. 6 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	10
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4

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
3 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	200 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
11 September 2015	Natural	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LAMBSHEAD FIRE
6 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	STONE RANCH FIRE
15 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
14 August 2008	Natural	874 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	EVERETT FIRE
19 June 2011	Natural	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SCALE PENS
26 May 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	PERRY
2 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MATTHEWS RANCH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Throckmorton 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
Gentry Crossing	0.8 miles	8
Reynolds Crossing	1.2 miles	8
Hayford Crossing	1.7 miles	8
Paint Crossing	2.3 miles	8
Dug Ford	4.1 miles	7
McKeichan Crossing	4.8 miles	8
M K Crossing	5.0 miles	7
Coody Crossing	8.4 miles	7

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 Q122548757

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 1377973. 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.