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Cross Cut, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the May census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76443. The Survey maps it on the Cross Cut quadrangle.

Cross Cut within Brown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

79 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Cross Cut between 2005 and 2020, burning about 752 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/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use18
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Debris and open burning14
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2940 (11-028504)
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 122 4785
29 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 411 4799
23 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 123 (4136)
15 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 415

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cross Cut in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2017: 22 hail, 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1997HailCross Cut$250,000no account filed
March 2004Tornado (F0)Cross Cut$50,000This tornado was observed by a law enforcement officer. Damage was most noted to trees.
March 2007HailCross Cut$2,000Golf ball size hail reported at Cross Cut.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindCross Cut-A trained spotter reported power lines, power poles and large trees were blown down by damaging thunderstorm winds.
May 2017Tornado (EF1)Cross Cut-A National Weather Service damage survey indicated an EF-1 tornado with highest wind speeds around 107 mph moved east along FM 2940 and then curved to the north across an oil field. The tornado damaged several homes along FM 2940 just east of Cross Cut. It lifted a significant amount of roof decking off one of the homes and destroyed the inside sheet rock. This tornado also blew out large overhead garage doors. The twister removed shingles from other residences and mostly destroyed small sheds. The tornado also snapped numerous Oak and Mesquite tree trunks and tree limbs. Debris was blown over 250 yards. Amateur radio operators from Brownwood also reported this tornado.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindCross Cut-Strong damaging winds snapped four to five trees and each were about 12 inches in diameter.
May 2015HailCross Cut-Dime to quarter size hail was reported by the public near Cross Cut.
March 2014HailCross Cut-The fire department reported golf ball size hail covering Highway 279.
May 1994HailCross Cut-A mobile home was destroyed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2017HailCross Cut-no account filed
May 2017HailCross Cut-no account filed
May 2015HailCross Cut-no account filed
May 2015HailCross Cut-no account filed
April 2015HailCross Cut-no account filed
April 2015HailCross Cut-no account filed
April 2015HailCross Cut-no account filed
April 2015HailCross Cut-no account filed
April 2015HailCross Cut-no account filed
March 2013HailCross Cut-no account filed
April 2004HailCross Cut-no account filed
April 2003HailCross Cut-no account filed
April 2003HailCross Cut-no account filed
April 2003HailCross Cut-no account filed
May 2000HailCross Cut-no account filed
April 1995HailCross Cut-no account filed
April 1995HailCross Cut-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Williams6.1 miles9
Byrds9.6 miles17
Grosvenor10.5 miles15
Holder11.7 miles14
May11.9 miles14
Blackwell Crossing12.8 miles15
Lake Shore14.2 miles17
Fry14.6 miles15

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 Cross CutAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q115804414The 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 1333713. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.