Old Farm Crossing, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Vega census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79018. It stands on Pedarosa Creek. The Survey maps it on the Many Post Camp quadrangle.

Old Farm Crossing within Oldham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1954 USGS Tucumcari quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Tucumcari quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Many Post Camp quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Hartley quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Old Farm Crossing between 2011 and 2016, burning about 18,280 acres in total. 2 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
Natural	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
2 August 2016	Natural	2,500 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SCHARBAUER RIVER FIRE
12 July 2011	Natural	500 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	AQUA CREEK FIRE
24 May 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15,280 acres	Cibola National Forest	296

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oldham County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Old Farm Crossing: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	State Hwy Pit No. 58-68-S	Stone	Unknown

Every working recorded in Oldham 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
Strip Crossing	3.0 miles	6
Partwood Crossing	4.2 miles	6
Hollicott Crossing	11.7 miles	6
Corner Windmill	12.7 miles	6
Wimberly Place	13.2 miles	6
Murdo	14.5 miles	6
Knoblaw	15.8 miles	7
Adrian	17.4 miles	6

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 Q122568636

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 1380296. 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.