Comanche Crossing, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Gonzales census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78629. It lies near Pettit Prairie Flats. The Survey maps it on the Dilworth quadrangle.

Comanche Crossing within Gonzales County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1901 USGS Flatonia quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Dilworth quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

12 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Comanche Crossing between 2001 and 2020, burning about 462 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
27 August 2014	Debris and open burning	23 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GASKIN FIRE
23 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	VAUGHAN FIRE
12 August 2001	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SOUTH BRANCH - 5
6 July 2013	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	THOUROT FIRE
7 February 2006	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
1 February 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
11 November 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CUB
9 October 2005	Debris and open burning	283 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SOUTH TX - 3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gonzales 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
Hickston	2.0 miles	11
Little New York	2.4 miles	11
Nickel	3.0 miles	11
Saturn	4.1 miles	11
Dilworth	4.6 miles	11
Newtonville	6.8 miles	11
Waelder	8.4 miles	11
Kokernot	9.0 miles	9

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 Q122565791

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 1378146. 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.