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Rough Creek Crossing, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the San Saba census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76877. It stands on Rough Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wolf Ridge quadrangle.

Rough Creek Crossing within San Saba County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

Fires near this place

20 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Rough Creek Crossing between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,559 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning9
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
21 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 August 2012Natural1,150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLOMETA RANCH FIRE
11 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM. 580 BEND
5 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAY FIELD
20 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 580
19 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 May 2008Debris and open burning200 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Saba 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Bend2.7 miles16
Hicks Crossing3.3 miles16
High Valley3.3 miles16
Chappel5.3 miles16
San Saba10.2 miles16
Cherokee13.3 miles17
Harkeyville13.9 miles13
McMillan14.2 miles15

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 Q122544026The 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 1380461. 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.