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Cloptins Crossing, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Dripping Springs-Wimberley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78676. It lies near Heaton Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Wimberley quadrangle.

Cloptins Crossing within Hays County

On record in Cloptins Crossing

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

112 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Cloptins Crossing between 2004 and 2020, burning about 309 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Smoking8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Arson/incendiarism1
Other causes1
Natural1

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
7 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceJACOBS WELL
24 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hays 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
Pioneer Town0.6 miles12
Wimberley1.5 miles12
Woodcreek3.3 miles15
Pleasant Valley Crossing4.7 miles15
Hays City8.2 miles18
Driftwood10.8 miles15
Mount Gainor11.3 miles16
San Marcos11.4 miles16

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 Q122563337The 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 1378134. 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.