Cross Mountain, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the San Antonio Northwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78255. It stands on Cross Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Van Raub quadrangle. 3,944 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,398 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCross Mountain grew from 3,124 to 3,944 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,124 | |
| 2020 | 3,944 | +820 (+26%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Van Raub quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Van Raub quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS New Braunfels quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Van Raub quadrangle1:24000
- 1992 USGS New Braunfels quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
12 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Cross Mountain between 2005 and 2017, burning about 343 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 | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SS COMMAND |
| 16 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ANAUA SPRINGS |
| 2 June 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | RALPH FAIR ROAD |
| 14 June 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GOLDFINCH |
| 14 May 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 85 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 13 May 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 85 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 12 May 2006 | Debris and open burning | 83 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HUNTRESS LANE |
| 27 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HILL COUNTRY - 3 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Cross Mountain: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Calcium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beckman Quarry | Limestone, General | Producer | Limestone | |
| Beckman Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium | Producer | ||
| Helotes Quarry | Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | Limestone | |
| Helotes Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leon Springs | 2.1 miles | 12 | |
| Grey Forest | 2.4 miles | 13 | |
| Dominion | 2.4 miles | 11 | |
| Beckmann | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Scenic Oaks | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Helotes | 4.9 miles | 13 | |
| Van Raub | 5.8 miles | 12 | |
| Fair Oaks Ranch | 7.0 miles | 12 |
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 Mountain | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981589 | 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 1867546. 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.






