Crockett Heights, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the East Crockett census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76943. The Survey maps it on the Crockett Heights quadrangle.

Crockett Heights within Crockett 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 Sonora quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Sonora quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Crockett Heights quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Ozona quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

9 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Crockett Heights between 2009 and 2011, burning about 510 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	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
17 September 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	IH 10 MM 370
19 June 2010	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	IH10 MM 370
18 May 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	IH10 MM 372-379
27 March 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	500 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CROCKETT COUTY MUTUAL AID
7 February 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	EAST OF TRUCK STOP IH 10
27 February 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	IH10 MM 376 EB
12 February 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	IH10 AND CR 102
3 October 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	IH 10 MM 375 WB

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Ozona

Every fire recorded in Crockett 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
Ozona	4.6 miles	7
Midway	14.5 miles	6
Four Corner Windmill	24.4 miles	7
Fort Lancaster	30.9 miles	7

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 Q122564869

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 1355367. 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.