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Cronin, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Palestine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75839. It stands on Saddler Creek. The Survey maps it on the Southeast Palestine quadrangle. It stands 299 feet above sea level.

Cronin within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

308 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 308 fires within 5 miles of Cronin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,821 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 14 were 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 burning163
Missing data/not specified/undetermined65
Equipment and vehicle use24
Arson/incendiarism14
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Natural12
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Fireworks3
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOLMAN
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 161 FIRE
8 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceELK90089
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceELK90088
8 September 2009Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2101 FIRE
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 227
6 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service200 FIELD ST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson 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 Cronin: 2 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Salt, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Talc-Soapstone, Ball Clay, Clay. 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
Palestine LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Palestine PitClayPast Producer
Palestine SaltSaltUnknown
Southern Clay Products PlantTalc-Soapstone, Ball ClayProducer

Every working recorded in Anderson 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
Lakeview Assembly3.9 miles10
Elkhart4.0 miles10
Deanwright5.7 miles10
Palestine6.0 miles13
Tucker7.0 miles10
Crystal Lake7.3 miles10
Kossuth7.7 miles11
Alderbranch8.5 miles11

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.

Wikipedia article on CroninAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076453The 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 1379607. 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.