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Chaffin Crossing, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Santa Anna census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76873. It stands on Bull Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fife quadrangle.

Chaffin Crossing within Coleman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

Fires near this place

16 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Chaffin Crossing between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,882 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural2
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2008Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 August 2016Natural40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFLAT TOP
24 July 2015Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePR 746
14 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1,097 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWALDROP
13 July 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCCULLOCH CO. CR 223
9 June 2008Smoking25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coleman County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Chaffin Crossing: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mcbryde MineUraniumProducer
Trevino MineUraniumProducer

Every working recorded in Coleman 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Hays Crossing2.1 miles14
Rockwood3.4 miles13
Whon5.5 miles15
Gouldbusk8.0 miles12
Shields9.6 miles12
Mozelle11.1 miles12
Trickham12.7 miles13
Voss14.3 miles14

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 Q122561863The 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 1379525. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.