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Cross, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Anderson-Bedias census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77861. The Survey maps it on the Iola quadrangle.

Cross within Grimes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

87 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Cross between 1993 and 2020, burning about 947 acres in total. 3 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 burning47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking5
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1

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
29 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.3 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRIMES 15:42
27 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE
21 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
20 September 2005Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 1993Recreation and ceremony107 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2019Fireworks1.9 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRIMES 16:30
10 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
3 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grimes County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cross in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2019: 1 hail, 1 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
May 2001HailCross$2,000no account filed
April 2019Thunderstorm WindCross-There were reports of snapped trees.

Every storm recorded in Grimes 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
Iola3.0 miles10
Bedias8.5 miles10
Cotton11.1 miles10
Keith11.4 miles8
Singleton13.3 miles11
Ferguson Crossing14.6 miles9
Carlos14.9 miles10
Roans Prairie17.7 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380835. 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.