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Texas Creek, Colorado

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Cotopaxi census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81223. It lies in Texas Creek Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Echo quadrangle. It stands 6,195 feet above sea level.

Texas Creek within Fremont County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Texas Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. 25 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
Natural25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
15 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDeer Mountain Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
12 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeOWL
8 August 2016Naturalunder an acreDeer Mountain Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
8 August 2016Naturalunder an acreFront Range District OfficeKIRK
6 August 2001Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeHINDMANGUL
24 August 2011Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeTEXAS CREEK
20 August 2002Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeECHOCANYON
2 August 2001Natural2.0 acresRoyal Gorge Field OfficeFIVE POINT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of Texas Creek: 18 occurrences, 11 past producers, 6 producers, 4 unknowns. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, Uranium, Granite, Feldspar, Mica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bull GulchMica, BerylliumPast Producer
Bull Gulch ProspectMica, Feldspar, Beryllium, Tantalum, Niobium (Columbium)ProspectBeryl, Feldspar, Mica
Chief #1-5 MineQuartz, Feldspar, Beryllium, Lithium, REEProducer1950, 1959
Cotopaxi Pegmatite AreaNiobium (Columbium), Tantalum, REEOccurrenceAllanite, Euxenite, Gadolinite, Xenotime
Devil's Hole QuarryStone, Feldspar, Mica, Beryllium, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, QuartzPast Producer1922, 1944
Florence GroupCopperOccurrence
Jim 3 MineFeldspar, Mica, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Beryllium, REEOccurrenceBeryl, Microcline, Muscovite
Misery MinesUranium, VanadiumPast Producer1952
Navajo ClaimsUranium, IronOccurrence
Texas Creek ProspectCopper, SilverProspectBornite, Chalcopyrite

Every working recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Texas Creek in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 5 flash flood, 4 hail, 1 wildfire. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2002WildfireTexas Creek$5,000,000no account filed
July 2008Flash FloodTexas Creek$75,000no account filed
July 2009Flash FloodTexas Creek$5,000County Road 27, north of Texas Creek, had several washouts. Fourteen people and their vehicles were stranded on the road, which leads to a popular recreation area. Washouts were as deep as 8 feet. In addition, dirt and rock debris washed into the Arkansas River which needed to be excavated from bridge abutements.
August 2022Flash FloodTexas Creek-Fremont county sheriff reported a rock slide on highway 50 at mile marker 261.
August 2022Flash FloodTexas Creek-Six feet of water with mud and debris in water crossings located between mile markers 10 and 14 along copper gulch road (cr28).
July 2021Flash FloodTexas Creek-Three plush inches of water on county road 21 with damage to roads 2 and 6.
September 2015HailTexas Creek-no account filed
August 2011HailTexas Creek-no account filed
July 2008HailTexas Creek-no account filed
September 1997HailTexas Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fremont 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
Echo3.0 miles15
Cotopaxi6.4 miles17
Sunset City8.7 miles24
Pleasanton9.5 miles17
Coaldale9.9 miles18
Vallie10.3 miles19
Hillside10.3 miles16
Fink11.8 miles24

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.

Wikipedia article on Texas CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16901446The 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 191788. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.