BlockFerguson Crossing, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Anderson-Bedias census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77861. It stands on Sandy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ferguson Crossing quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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
- 1956 USGS Carlos quadrangle1:62500
- 1959 USGS Ferguson Crossing quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1993 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
86 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Ferguson Crossing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 553 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 burning | 47 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 6 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 10529 CR 174 |
| 29 September 2013 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 13-0005611 OLDEN TREE FIRE |
| 28 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASSFIRE |
| 21 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 15-6072 TONKAWAY LAKE FIRE |
| 2 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONTE FIRE |
| 15 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SH 30 |
| 14 September 2006 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
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.
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 Q122553692 | 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 1379762. 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.