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Cross Roads, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Pilot Point-Aubrey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76227. The Survey maps it on the Denton East quadrangle. 1,744 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Cross Roads within Denton County

Population over time

2 figures

Cross Roads grew from 1,563 to 1,744 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
20101,563
20201,744+181 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

86 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Cross Roads between 2005 and 2019, burning about 662 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Debris and open burning25
Equipment and vehicle use10
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGBEE
28 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Service09-0001492
22 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePOWELL RD.
20 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRHODES ROAD
19 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBREWER RD.
1 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 377
6 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Denton County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Cross Roads: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Don Davidson's Sand Pit OperationSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Harbert,Hobson,Sewell,AllisonClayProducer
Herbert PitClayProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Denton 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
New Hope (historical)0.8 miles10
Lincoln Park1.7 miles10
Providence2.1 miles10
Oak Point2.8 miles10
Mingo3.3 miles11
Krugerville3.6 miles7
Navo3.9 miles10
Cooper Creek4.3 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 Cross RoadsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977417The 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 2514008. 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.