Shotgun Crossing, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Emory census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75440. It stands on Elm Creek. The Survey maps it on the Arbala quadrangle.

Shotgun Crossing within Rains County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1958 USGS Arbala quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Alba quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

76 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Shotgun Crossing between 1995 and 2020, burning about 656 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning	59
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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
9 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 136
8 September 2004	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 119
22 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
21 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	TREE FIRE
20 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	9202015
18 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	09182017B
15 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 599
12 September 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rains 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
Shady Grove	2.5 miles	16
Poole	2.9 miles	16
Hogansville	3.7 miles	16
Dougherty	4.1 miles	14
Emory	4.5 miles	14
Ginger	5.0 miles	15
County Line	5.6 miles	14
Prospect	5.8 miles	14

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 Q122560515

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 1379074. 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.