Parsley Crossing, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hamilton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76531. It stands on Henderson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ohio quadrangle.

Parsley Crossing within Hamilton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1888 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Ohio quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Comanche quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

63 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Parsley Crossing between 2005 and 2020, burning about 899 acres in total. 1 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 burning	43
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	1
Natural	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
4 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HC
27 September 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CARAWAY
7 August 2014	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HAVERKORN
5 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	COWHOUSE CREEK RANCH
31 August 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	STEVE ALLEN
3 August 2016	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HC
23 August 2016	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 419
2 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CHUMNEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton 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
Ballard Crossing	2.3 miles	14
Ohio	2.4 miles	14
Slab Crossing	3.3 miles	14
Schoolerville	5.0 miles	13
Aleman	5.8 miles	13
Vista	6.1 miles	13
Shive	7.2 miles	13
Fairview	8.0 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 Q122566231

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 1380327. 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.