Coody Crossing, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Throckmorton census division. The Survey maps it on the Hoover Mountain quadrangle.

Coody Crossing within Throckmorton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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 Hoover Mountain quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Haskell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

15 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Coody Crossing between 2005 and 2019, burning about 4,496 acres in total. 4 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	6
Natural	4
Debris and open burning	3
Smoking	2

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
10 August 2008	Natural	550 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CIRCLE S RANCH
23 July 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
17 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
17 July 2009	Natural	69 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CREEK BOTTOM FIRE
17 July 2008	Smoking	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
16 July 2009	Natural	2,362 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SCOTTS CROSSING 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
Paint Crossing	6.3 miles	8
Hayford Crossing	6.7 miles	8
Dug Ford	7.5 miles	7
Gentry Crossing	7.6 miles	8
M K Crossing	8.0 miles	7
Bartholomew Crossing	8.4 miles	8
Reynolds Crossing	9.1 miles	8
McKeichan Crossing	13.1 miles	8

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 Q122556459

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 1378154. 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.