BlockPleasant Valley Crossing, Texas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Dripping Springs-Wimberley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78676. It stands on Cedar Fork. The Survey maps it on the Rough Hollow quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1887 USGS Blanco quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Blanco quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Rough Hollow quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Pedernales River quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
77 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Valley Crossing between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,760 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 37 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 35 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BUFFALO GULCH |
| 7 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 28 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 32 |
| 28 September 2008 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 10 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 1 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 August 2004 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloptins Crossing | 4.7 miles | 12 | |
| Pioneer Town | 5.0 miles | 12 | |
| Woodcreek | 5.1 miles | 15 | |
| Wimberley | 5.4 miles | 12 | |
| Mount Gainor | 10.5 miles | 16 | |
| Hays City | 11.7 miles | 18 | |
| Driftwood | 12.3 miles | 15 | |
| Henly | 13.4 miles | 16 |
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 Q122593846 | 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 1378889. 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.