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Mays Crossing, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Falls City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78113. It stands on Scared Dog Creek. The Survey maps it on the Falls City quadrangle.

Mays Crossing within Karnes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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.

Fires near this place

17 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Mays Crossing between 2006 and 2020, burning about 95 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
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKARNES COUNTY CR197
2 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBLACKBRUSH OIL & GAS
15 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTOM GILMORE
12 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceREGENCY GAS SERVICES
11 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJEFFERY DZIUK
10 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTROY CONSTRUCTION
1 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTXDOT US181
29 May 2008Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Karnes County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Mays Crossing: 13 past producers, 13 producers, 2 occurrences. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brown Uranium PitUraniumProducer
Brysch MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Conquista Uranium MillUraniumProducer
Dickson-Brown PitUraniumProducer
E. Labus MineUraniumProducer
Fort Worth National MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Franklin PitUraniumProducer
Franklin-Swierc MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Garcia-Turner PitUraniumProducer
Hobson In Situ Uranium ProjUraniumProducer

Every working recorded in Karnes 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Conquista Crossing0.4 miles12
Falls City3.5 miles12
Hobson4.2 miles9
Deweesville4.4 miles12
Mayo8.0 miles9
Cestohowa8.1 miles10
Coy City8.5 miles11
Panna Maria8.9 miles9

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 Q122540896The 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 1380161. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.