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Crossroads, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pittsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75686. It stands on Perry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pittsburg quadrangle.

Crossroads within Camp County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

444 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 444 fires within 5 miles of Crossroads between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,517 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 22 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 burning285
Missing data/not specified/undetermined58
Equipment and vehicle use23
Arson/incendiarism22
Power generation/transmission/distribution22
Natural14
Smoking8
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6302
9 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service3318
8 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1342
8 September 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1140
7 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDLAND FIRE
7 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 6228
6 September 2014Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1336

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Camp 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
Pine1.4 miles12
Hickory Hill2.7 miles12
Pittsburg4.4 miles12
Matinburg4.9 miles12
Pecan Heights4.9 miles8
Ebenezer5.1 miles12
Spring Hill6.2 miles8
Rocky Mound6.8 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378185. 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.