BlockBeaver Creek, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Old River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77836. It stands on Berry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lyons quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Somerville quadrangle1:62500
- 1960 USGS Lyons quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Brenham quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
161 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Beaver Creek between 1998 and 2020, burning about 827 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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 | 79 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 45 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 9 September 2019 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SNOOK MUTUAL AID |
| 9 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1872 |
| 7 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 201 |
| 6 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | SNOOK MUTUAL AID |
| 28 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 10166 TX 36S GRASS FIRE |
| 27 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2005 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaver Creek in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1994 | Hail | Beaver Creek | $5,000 | no account filed |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2805744. 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.
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.