Keys Crossing, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Brownwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76801. It stands on Clear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elm Grove quadrangle.

Keys Crossing within Brown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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 Brady quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1925 USGS Brady 1-a quadrangle1:48000
1928 USGS Mercury quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Mercury quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Elm Grove quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Brady quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

45 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Keys Crossing between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,108 acres in total. 3 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	14
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Natural	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
25 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 214
15 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FIRE
1 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
9 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 214 ROUND BALES
9 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	DWIGHT
8 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	13500 CR 237
31 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown 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
Indian Creek	3.9 miles	18
Dulin	5.3 miles	13
Brookesmith	7.0 miles	13
Winchell	7.2 miles	16
Dalzell	10.4 miles	14
Fisk Crossing	13.4 miles	17
Tenmile Crossing	13.7 miles	20
Woodland Heights	14.1 miles	20

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 Q122572771

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 1380027. 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.