Fourmile Crossing, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Menard West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76859. It stands on Coghlan Branch. The Survey maps it on the Menard quadrangle.

Fourmile Crossing within Menard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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 Llano quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Menard quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Mason quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Fourmile Crossing between 2006 and 2011, burning about 301 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
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
12 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MENARD MUTUAL AID
2 June 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	2011-57
11 April 2011	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MUTUAL AID/MENARD CO./US190W/WADELL RD
1 January 2006	Recreation and ceremony	200 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WEST ZONE SOUTH - 3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Menard 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
Beyer Crossing	3.4 miles	8
Menard	3.5 miles	8
Fivemile Crossing	7.6 miles	9
Tenmile Crossing	12.0 miles	9
Callan	13.1 miles	12
Fort McKavett	14.7 miles	11
Hext	17.5 miles	7
Twentymile Crossing	19.1 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379796. 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.