Thomas Crossing, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Huntington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75949. The Survey maps it on the Huntington quadrangle.

Thomas Crossing within Angelina County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1949 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1949 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
2003 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

133 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Thomas Crossing between 1992 and 2019, burning about 975 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 22 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	65
Arson/incendiarism	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2012	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	55-2012
28 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 583
27 September 2013	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1084-5
25 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	90-2011
23 September 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FILEPE LANDAVERDE
23 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 253
22 September 2005	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 244

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Angelina 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
Ewing	2.0 miles	13
Alco	2.6 miles	14
Rocky Springs	4.9 miles	14
Dunagan	4.9 miles	14
Platt	5.2 miles	15
Moffitt	6.3 miles	15
Oak Flat	6.8 miles	14
Huntington	7.0 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 Q122568768

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 1382857. 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.