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Cedar Creek, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Hempstead census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77445. The Survey maps it on the Howth quadrangle.

Cedar Creek within Waller County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

23 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Creek between 1999 and 2020, burning about 196 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Natural2

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
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCEADER CREEK
21 September 2000Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 421
1 September 2000Natural25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 360
25 August 2019Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTREE FIRE CR324
21 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 177
14 August 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceISRAEL
27 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
13 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waller 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
Howth1.8 miles8
Rolling Hills2.8 miles8
Rock Island3.8 miles8
Second Corinth4.7 miles8
Fields Store6.5 miles11
Hempstead6.8 miles10
Saint Paul6.9 miles8
Prairie View8.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378103. 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.