BlockGray Crossing, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Poth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78160. The Survey maps it on the Stockdale quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1920 USGS Smiley quadrangle1:125000
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Stockdale quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Cuero quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
54 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Gray Crossing between 2005 and 2018, burning about 1,099 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 27 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | MILLNER FIRE |
| 23 August 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 20 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 August 2005 | Natural | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 July 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plummer Crossing | 3.3 miles | 10 | |
| Unity | 3.6 miles | 9 | |
| Sunnyside | 3.7 miles | 9 | |
| Denhawken | 4.0 miles | 10 | |
| Stockdale | 5.0 miles | 10 | |
| Kosciusko | 5.0 miles | 10 | |
| Sutherland Springs | 7.8 miles | 9 | |
| Poth | 8.3 miles | 10 |
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 Q122551657 | 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 1379853. 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.