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Crescent Center, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Portland-Gregory census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78374. The Survey maps it on the Gregory quadrangle.

Crescent Center within San Patricio County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

19 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Crescent Center between 2009 and 2020, burning about 34 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
18 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceINGLESIDE BRUSH
29 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS GIRE
29 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
18 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGARZA
4 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service181 AT CITY LIMIT
28 May 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
26 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
2 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS/BRUSH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Patricio County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Crescent Center: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Aluminum, Salt, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Haas Trucking Company OperationSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Texas Brine PlantSaltProducer
(Facility) Sherwin Alumina RefineryAluminumPlant1952
Reynolds Metals San Patricio PlantAluminumPast Producer

Every working recorded in San Patricio 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
Portland0.2 miles13
Nueces Bay Colonia1.1 miles13
Nueces Bayfront Colonia1.2 miles13
Doyle1.3 miles13
Doyle Addition Colonia1.3 miles13
Gregory3.4 miles13
Midway5.3 miles13
Caruthers Cove Colonia5.8 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 Q122592209The 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 1378179. 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.