BlockDemocrat Crossing, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1993. It lies in ZIP code area 77861. It stands on Sand Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clear Lake quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 10 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.
- 1931 USGS Iola quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Clear Lake quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1993 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
45 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Democrat Crossing between 2005 and 2018, burning about 517 acres in total. 2 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 | 25 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASSFIRE9-7-2015 |
| 7 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 15-5663 KURTEN LANE FIRE |
| 20 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 16 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | VF090001237 |
| 15 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 14-0005728 DEMOCRAT ROAD FIRE |
| 9 August 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | VF090001063 |
| 30 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 148 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CLEAR LAKE ROAD - 175 |
| 14 August 2011 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 705 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kurten | 5.0 miles | 7 | |
| Reliance | 5.8 miles | 10 | |
| Channey Crossing | 6.2 miles | 10 | |
| Union | 8.0 miles | 7 | |
| Wixon Valley | 8.3 miles | 7 | |
| Edge | 8.4 miles | 7 | |
| Cottonwood | 8.5 miles | 7 | |
| Moore | 8.7 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.
| Wikidata item Q122543905 | 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 1379651. 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.