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Oberly Crossing, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Comfort census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78006. It lies near Big Spring Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Kendalia quadrangle.

Oberly Crossing within Kendall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

62 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Oberly Crossing between 2003 and 2014, burning about 967 acres in total. 5 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
Debris and open burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony1
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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service110 MARK TWAIN
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service110 HOSKINS TRAIL
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service200 BLK FM 3351 N
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service200 BLK FM 3351
29 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJONAS FIRE
26 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCARBO FIRE
14 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTAMAYO FIRE
31 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kendall 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
Ammans Crossing4.7 miles10
Kendalia4.9 miles10
Kreutzberg6.1 miles12
Bergheim6.4 miles10
Sisterdale7.9 miles10
Walnut Grove8.6 miles12
Welfare10.5 miles10
Nelson City11.4 miles10

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 Q122548062The 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 1378783. 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.