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Alum Creek, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bastrop census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78957. It sits by Kennedy Bluffs. The Survey maps it on the Smithville quadrangle.

Alum Creek within Bastrop County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

236 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 236 fires within 5 miles of Alum Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,436 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 4 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 burning120
Missing data/not specified/undetermined48
Natural22
Equipment and vehicle use22
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePARK RD FIRE
7 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2008Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCALLISTER ROAD - 184
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1000 95 HWY N
5 September 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 135

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bastrop 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
Hills Prairie4.1 miles17
Upton4.6 miles17
Smithville5.1 miles17
Pine Hills5.2 miles16
KC Estates5.7 miles17
Bastrop6.0 miles17
Circle D Estates6.4 miles17
Clearview6.5 miles17

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 Alum CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4737328The 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 1377933. 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.