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Clark, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hardin-Rye census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77327. It stands on Cherry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Romayor quadrangle.

Clark within Liberty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

38 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Clark between 1996 and 2020, burning about 1,144 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 10 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 burning10
Arson/incendiarism10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2012Natural15 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 8070
27 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONTROL BURN
18 September 1997Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution19 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 8083
10 September 2012Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 8079
25 August 2011Natural11 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 773
14 August 2001Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 115
19 July 1998Arson/incendiarism20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Clark: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Rye Dredge & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Trinity River Dredge OperationSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Liberty County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clark in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2014: 2 tornado. 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
December 2014Tornado (EF0)Clark$10,000Tornado damage was found approximately one mile west of CR 2117 and SH 146. There was damage to trees and power lines. One roof was torn off a mobile home.
April 2006Tornado (F0)Clark$5,000Tornado downed trees and power lines along CR2863 in the Horseshoe Lakes Estates Subdivision near Rye.

Every storm recorded in Liberty 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
Mason Lake Estates2.0 miles12
Marvels3.0 miles12
Trinity River Lake Estates3.9 miles12
Fuqua4.1 miles14
Rye4.2 miles12
Milvid4.9 miles12
Grand Cane5.0 miles12
Sam Houston5.1 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379552. 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.