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Cross Roads, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Cedar Creek Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75751. It stands on Barron Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cross Roads quadrangle.

Cross Roads within Henderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Cross Roads between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,094 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning44
Equipment and vehicle use21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLOCKRIDGE FIRE
5 September 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHADY OAKS
3 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use250 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 463
29 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBETHEL & CAYUGA FIRE
2 September 2015Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTHSIDE FIRE
13 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH SIDE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henderson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cross Roads: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Julian PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Henderson 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
Shady Oaks5.8 miles15
Malakoff8.7 miles11
Trinidad9.3 miles11
Crescent Heights9.6 miles15
Virginia Hill9.7 miles16
Dauphin9.9 miles15
Pine Grove10.8 miles16
Star Harbor10.9 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 Q5188398The 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 1333722. 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.