Hunt Crossing, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Round Rock-Georgetown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78628. It lies near Hunt Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Leander NE quadrangle.

Hunt Crossing within Williamson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1893 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1962 USGS Leander NE quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1985 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

178 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Hunt Crossing between 2000 and 2020, burning about 742 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	81
Debris and open burning	51
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Power generation/transmission/distribution	14
Arson/incendiarism	5
Natural	4
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
29 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	209 GABRIEL VISTA CT
28 September 2005	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
26 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	22300 RONALD W REAGAN BLVD
19 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SOUTH BRANCH - 50
16 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	9700 W SH 29
16 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	ADJ 539 CR 245
14 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 3405
13 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	4250 N US 183

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson 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
Santa Rita Ranch	2.3 miles	15
Russell Crossing	3.5 miles	15
Seward Junction	4.2 miles	13
Sun City	5.4 miles	20
Jinks Branch	5.7 miles	13
Liberty Hill	6.1 miles	13
Serenada	6.4 miles	20
Andice	6.7 miles	13

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 Q122566250

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 1379977. 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.