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The Crossroads, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Davilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76567. The Survey maps it on the San Gabriel quadrangle.

The Crossroads within Milam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

57 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of The Crossroads between 2006 and 2020, burning about 530 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use22
Debris and open burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceREKINDLE CAMERON FIRE
29 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOTTON BALE ON FIRE
8 August 2009Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
27 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
26 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePASTURE FIRE
26 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePASTURE FIRE N FM 486

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Milam 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
Sharp1.3 miles17
Tracy1.9 miles15
Cummins Crossing4.2 miles17
San Gabriel5.0 miles14
Liberty Hill5.1 miles14
Corinth6.6 miles17
Salem7.4 miles14
Pettibone7.6 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380653. 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.