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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.

Cross Mountain within Bexar County

Population over time

2 figures

Cross 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.

YearPeople Change
20103,124
20203,944+820 (+26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

12 since 2005

Regional 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
13 August 2010Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSS COMMAND
16 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceANAUA SPRINGS
2 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRALPH FAIR ROAD
14 June 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGOLDFINCH
14 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined85 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined85 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 May 2006Debris and open burning83 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHUNTRESS LANE
27 April 2005Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHILL COUNTRY - 3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bexar 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Beckman QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Beckman QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, CalciumProducer
Helotes QuarryLimestone, General, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducerLimestone
Helotes QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Bexar 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
Leon Springs2.1 miles12
Grey Forest2.4 miles13
Dominion2.4 miles11
Beckmann3.9 miles12
Scenic Oaks4.6 miles12
Helotes4.9 miles13
Van Raub5.8 miles12
Fair Oaks Ranch7.0 miles12

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 MountainAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981589The 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.