BlockClear Creek, Texas
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Canadian South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79014. It stands on West Fork Clear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Canadian East quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 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 Amarillo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Amarillo quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Canadian East quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Pampa quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
31 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Clear Creek between 2006 and 2019, burning about 4,137 acres in total. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 13 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 August 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GENE HOWE |
| 19 August 2019 | Natural | 1,197 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH GLAZIER WEBB FIRE |
| 5 July 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 30 July 2011 | Natural | 200 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BAILY PEYTON |
| 24 July 2017 | Natural | 1,200 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 281 & CR 8 |
| 20 July 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SUE HELMS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 1379557. 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.