English Crossing, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Bandera census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78003. It stands on Red Bluff Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pipe Creek quadrangle.

English Crossing within Bandera County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1954 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Medina Lake quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Pipe Creek quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS New Braunfels quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS New Braunfels quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

13 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of English Crossing between 2005 and 2014, burning about 108 acres in total. 1 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	8
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	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
17 May 2006	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SISTRUNK
19 April 2006	Natural	40 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TABLE TOP
2 March 2006	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
26 February 2006	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
12 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WEST ZONE SOUTH - 69
11 February 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
11 February 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
25 December 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bandera 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bandera Falls	0.7 miles	11
Pipe Creek	3.6 miles	11
Lakehills	3.6 miles	11
Bandera	6.0 miles	9
Lake Hills	6.9 miles	10
Lake Medina Highlands	7.9 miles	10
Highland Waters	9.8 miles	9
Tarpley	16.0 miles	9

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 Q122558477

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 1378264. 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.