Russell Crossing, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Round Rock-Georgetown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78628. It lies near Cedar Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Leander NE quadrangle. It stands 778 feet above sea level.

Russell Crossing within Williamson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 15 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.

1893 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1962 USGS Leander NE quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1985 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

146 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Russell Crossing between 2004 and 2020, burning about 645 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	78
Debris and open burning	37
Power generation/transmission/distribution	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	2
Smoking	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
29 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	209 GABRIEL VISTA CT
17 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	158 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	16-0001356
16 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	ADJ 539 CR 245
10 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	3800 NORTHWEST BLVD
1 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	3103 SHELL RD
7 August 2008	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7500 RANCH RD 2338
4 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	100 S. AUSTIN AVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson 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
Sun City	3.5 miles	20
Hunt Crossing	3.5 miles	15
Serenada	3.6 miles	20
North Georgetown	4.3 miles	20
Georgetown	4.8 miles	20
Santa Rita Ranch	4.8 miles	15
Berrys Creek	5.6 miles	20
Seward Junction	6.7 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 Q29030877

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 1380472. 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.