House Crossing, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Fort Cavazos census division. It stands on Clear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Hood quadrangle.

House Crossing within Coryell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1894 USGS Gatesville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Fort Hood quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Fort Hood quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Fort Hood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Fort Hood quadrangle1:62500
1985 USGS Temple quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1995 USGS Fort Hood quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

24 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of House Crossing between 2006 and 2020, burning about 8,113 acres in total. None 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	20
Debris and open burning	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	ON HWY 190 AT CLEAR CREEK RD
30 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3,700 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	JACK MOUNTIAN FIRE
22 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ON IH 14 AT BELL TOWER
21 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,500 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PILOT KNOB FIRE
20 August 2011	Debris and open burning	400 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	STRIKE TEAM ACT, CLARKE RD AND 190
14 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ON CENTRAL TEXAS COLLEGE DR AT CLEAR CREEK RD
4 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coryell 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
Middle Crossing	2.2 miles	15
Saint Elijah Village	2.8 miles	15
Comanche Village I	3.0 miles	15
Comanche Village III	3.2 miles	15
Comanche Village II	3.4 miles	15
Jackson Crossing	4.6 miles	15
Kay Bee Heights	4.8 miles	16
Montague Village	4.9 miles	16

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 Q122564674

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 1379965. 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.