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Cranes Mill, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Canyon Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78133. The Survey maps it on the Fischer quadrangle.

Cranes Mill within Comal County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

72 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Cranes Mill between 2005 and 2020, burning about 183 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 burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
4 September 2011Recreation and ceremony20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNOV-28
28 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 32
2 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use12 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMYSTIC SHORES
31 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCANYON SHORES
11 August 2012Natural40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCANYON CURVE
22 July 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service10-0072482
10 July 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Comal County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cranes Mill: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Comal 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
Canyon Springs3.3 miles15
Canyon Lake3.5 miles17
Westhaven3.9 miles15
Fischer4.1 miles17
Canyon Lake Forest4.3 miles15
Startzville5.3 miles15
Canyon City6.3 miles14
Spring Branch7.5 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 Q122572565The 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 1373276. 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.