BlockCrossroads, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Burlington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76520. The Survey maps it on the Maysfield quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Maysfield quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
14 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Crossroads between 2006 and 2020, burning about 250 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 burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 267 & CR 270 |
| 15 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 258 |
| 13 July 2009 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON FIRE |
| 13 June 2009 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SKINNER 2 |
| 13 June 2009 | Debris and open burning | 150 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SKINNER |
| 13 June 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 May 2011 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 259 |
| 5 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | WILDCAT BRIDGE RD. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jones Prairie | 2.3 miles | 7 | |
| Maysfield | 5.6 miles | 7 | |
| Branchville | 5.7 miles | 7 | |
| Baileyville | 6.4 miles | 7 | |
| New Clarkson | 6.7 miles | 7 | |
| Port Sullivan (historical) | 7.3 miles | 8 | |
| Belmena | 7.3 miles | 7 | |
| Clarkson | 7.4 miles | 7 |
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 Crossroads | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q122929279 | 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 1379611. 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.