Smyth Crossing, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Uvalde census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78801. The Survey maps it on the Sand Mountain quadrangle.

Smyth Crossing within Uvalde County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1898 USGS Uvalde quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1899 USGS Uvalde quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Sand Mountain quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Uvalde quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Uvalde quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

45 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Smyth Crossing between 2006 and 2019, burning about 425 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	27
Smoking	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	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 2006	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
2 September 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 August 2006	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
12 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	53 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7 MILE
11 August 2009	Smoking	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WILDLAND-5 MILES N US 83
6 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
4 July 2009	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WILDLAND-8 MILES S US 83
4 July 2009	Debris and open burning	21 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WILDLAND-7 MILES S US 83

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Uvalde 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
Uvalde Estates Colonia	4.2 miles	12
Uvalde Estates	4.2 miles	12
Fort Clark Road Colonia	6.6 miles	12
Vanessa Street Colonia	6.9 miles	12
Gonzales Colonia	6.9 miles	12
South Grove Street Colonia	7.4 miles	12
Fort Inge	7.6 miles	12
Brice Lane Colonia	8.0 miles	12

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 Q122558478

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 1380565. 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.