Channey Crossing, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Northeast Brazos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77808. It stands on Bowman Creek. The Survey maps it on the Reliance quadrangle.

Channey Crossing within Brazos County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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 Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Carlos quadrangle1:62500
1959 USGS Reliance quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1993 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

85 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Channey Crossing between 1998 and 2017, burning about 774 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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
Debris and open burning	45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
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
3 September 2012	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	12-0004476 RILEY ROAD GRASS FIRE
3 September 2005	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
20 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
16 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	VF090001237
11 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
8 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	9232 TIMBERWILDE
8 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	16-4993 TIMBERWILDE FIRE
6 August 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brazos 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
Reliance	4.1 miles	10
Democrat Crossing	6.2 miles	10
Steep Hollow	6.8 miles	11
Kurten	6.9 miles	7
Harvey	7.3 miles	11
Wixon Valley	8.5 miles	7
Boonville	9.0 miles	11
Moore	9.3 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 Q122551713

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 1379533. 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.