Hammetts Crossing, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Southwest Travis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78620. It stands on Hamilton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hammetts Crossing quadrangle.

Hammetts Crossing within Travis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1887 USGS Blanco quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Blanco quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Hammetts Crossing quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Pedernales River quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

72 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Hammetts Crossing between 2005 and 2020, burning about 8,125 acres in total. 5 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	39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Natural	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
6 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	ADVENTURE TRL
4 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6,500 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PEDERNALES BEND FIRE
29 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WARWICK
28 September 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	DEAD MAN'S HOLE
27 September 2011	Natural	150 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ALAMO
24 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MAVERICK RIDGE
15 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
8 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1980

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Travis 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
Briarcliff	6.8 miles	17
Lakeway	8.0 miles	23
Point Venture	8.0 miles	24
The Hills	8.1 miles	23
Edgewater Beach	8.6 miles	24
Buffalo Gap	10.3 miles	24
Bee Cave	10.5 miles	23
North Shore Acres	10.6 miles	24

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 Q122570152

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 1378406. 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.