BlockPlummer Crossing, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Poth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78160. It stands on Wallace Branch. The Survey maps it on the Stockdale quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1920 USGS Smiley quadrangle1:125000
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Stockdale quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Cuero quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
26 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Plummer Crossing between 2005 and 2015, burning about 336 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 use | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MCCLELLAND/ SYNDER FIRE |
| 23 August 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 20 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 27 July 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 27 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | JIM SELLS |
| 24 June 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 123 SOUTH |
| 19 June 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 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.
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 Q122552699 | 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 1380383. 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.