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Fisk Crossing, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Blanket census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76802. It stands on Pecan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Blanket Springs quadrangle.

Fisk Crossing within Brown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

38 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Fisk Crossing between 2008 and 2020, burning about 2,934 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 September 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4601
26 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR259
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined24 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCAMP BOWIE
9 August 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4278
11 August 2020Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGATE 3
11 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGATE 8
11 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown 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
Tenmile Crossing4.4 miles20
Zephyr5.8 miles16
Ricker (historical)9.0 miles20
Woodland Heights9.5 miles20
Indian Creek9.7 miles18
Dalzell11.7 miles14
Brownwood12.0 miles20
Early12.1 miles20

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 Q122541485The 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 1379770. 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.