Powell Crossing, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Weatherford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76462. It stands on Patrick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dennis quadrangle.

Powell Crossing within Parker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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.

1891 USGS Weatherford quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Weatherford quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1931 USGS Dennis quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Dennis quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Dennis quadrangle1:62500
1985 USGS Fort Worth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

91 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Powell Crossing between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,431 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	39
Debris and open burning	28
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Smoking	7
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
16 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	4400 OLD DENNIS ROAD
9 August 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
8 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	400 LIPAN TRAIL
6 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	57 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GROVER-DALLAS FIRE
6 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 August 2008	Debris and open burning	3.5 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
24 August 2009	Natural	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HORSESHOE BEND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Parker 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
Dennis	1.1 miles	18
Maxwell Crossing	1.7 miles	18
Buckner	1.9 miles	18
Stephens Crossing	3.1 miles	18
Brock	4.4 miles	18
Western Lake	5.0 miles	20
Tin Top	5.1 miles	20
Brock Junction	6.5 miles	18

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 Q122552094

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 1378903. 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.