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Crabbs Prairie, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Huntsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77320. The Survey maps it on the Crabbs Prairie quadrangle.

Crabbs Prairie within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Crabbs Prairie between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,644 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 2 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 burning69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Natural8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2

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 2013Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service8066
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 846
4 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use183 acresLivingston AreaPINEDALE FIRE
30 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 432
29 September 2019Debris and open burning1.2 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWALKER 15:33
27 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 940
21 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker 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 Crabbs Prairie: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. 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
UnknownSilicaPast Producer
Pine Pit & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Walker County

Storms near this place

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crabbs Prairie in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 12 hail, 6 flash flood, 6 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2000HailCrabbs Prairie$25,000A strong upper level distrubance along with a very warm humid airmass resulted in a squall line which swept across southeast Texas on May 4th. The storms mainly affected the northern half of southeast Texas, moving as far south as Interstate 10 before weakening. Numerous reports of hail up to golfball sized were received, along with a few reports of downed trees. Flash flooding occurred in Grimes and central Washington Counties.
May 2000HailCrabbs Prairie$25,000no account filed
May 2004HailCrabbs Prairie$20,0001.75 inch hail in Crabbs Prairie.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindCrabbs Prairie$19,000A barn was destroyed along Wire Road.
January 1999HailCrabbs Prairie$15,000no account filed
April 2020Thunderstorm WindCrabbs Prairie$13,000A trailer lost part of its roof and three bay doors were blown out.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindCrabbs Prairie$5,000Trees and power lines were downed along FM 1696.
May 1994HailCrabbs Prairie$5,000no account filed
September 2003Flash FloodCrabbs Prairie$3,000Water flowing over FM 2550 1 mile south of FM 1696. High water in and around Huntsville.
February 2024HailCrabbs Prairie-Dime to penny sized hail was reported.
May 2024Flash FloodCrabbs Prairie-Portions of Hwy 30 in Walker County were made impassable due to flash flooding.
May 2024Flash FloodCrabbs Prairie-Flooding resulted in multiple water rescues along FM 1696.
May 2024Flash FloodCrabbs Prairie-The Interstate 45 frontage road north of Huntsville was made impassable due to flash flooding. Flooding dollar damage includes flooding from month leading up to this day.
April 2021Flash FloodCrabbs Prairie-FM247 was closed between Huntsville and Midway due to floodwaters making the roadway impassable.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindCrabbs Prairie-Trees were downed onto Didlake Road.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindCrabbs Prairie-Trees were downed near the intersection of Highway 75 and FM 1696.
June 2015Flash FloodCrabbs Prairie-There were numerous roads that were flooded and impassable in and around the Huntsville area.
April 2015HailCrabbs Prairie-Nickel sized hail was reported to the north northwest of Huntsville.
April 2015HailCrabbs Prairie-Dime sized hail was reported outside of Huntsville.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindCrabbs Prairie-Trees were reported down along FM 1696 near Crabbs Prairie.
April 2015HailCrabbs Prairie-Quarter sized hail reported in Crabbs Prairie.
May 2013HailCrabbs Prairie-Nickel to quarter size hail observed 10 miles west of Interstate 45.
April 2012HailCrabbs Prairie-Quarter sized hail reported.
November 2004HailCrabbs Prairie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Walker 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
Galilee4.0 miles10
Pine Prairie5.2 miles13
Huntsville5.6 miles14
Pine Hill6.9 miles14
Mount Morian8.6 miles13
Mossy Grove8.7 miles10
Wesley Grove8.8 miles10
Harmony9.2 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q122563716The 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 1380834. 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.