Cross Timber, Texas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Burleson-Joshua census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76028. It stands on Shannon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Burleson quadrangle. 362 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 728 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCross Timber grew from 268 to 362 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 | 268 | |
| 2020 | 362 | +94 (+35%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 14 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.
- 1894 USGS Fort Worth quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Burleson quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Fort Worth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
33 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Cross Timber between 2005 and 2020, burning about 441 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 August 2011 | Smoking | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1187 |
| 31 July 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BURLESON RETTA |
| 26 July 2015 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BLACK FOREST |
| 21 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 1020 |
| 2 July 2016 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | MCPHERSON |
| 15 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1187 |
| 30 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH FRWY |
| 28 June 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 711 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burleson | 0.7 miles | 14 | |
| Keeler | 2.3 miles | 14 | |
| Briaroaks | 2.3 miles | 14 | |
| Wooded Hills | 3.0 miles | 14 | |
| Marystown | 5.0 miles | 16 | |
| Egan | 5.6 miles | 16 | |
| Joshua | 5.9 miles | 16 | |
| Happy Hill | 6.4 miles | 16 |
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 Timber | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q976294 | 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 1388618. 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.




