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Craft, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Jacksonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75766. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonville East quadrangle. It stands 495 feet above sea level.

Craft within Cherokee 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

445 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 445 fires within 5 miles of Craft between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,595 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 13 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 burning281
Missing data/not specified/undetermined66
Power generation/transmission/distribution20
Smoking19
Equipment and vehicle use17
Arson/incendiarism13
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service4462 CR 3108
8 September 2017Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1416
8 September 2011Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1614
7 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service7 MILE HILL
6 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service#7048
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTRY CLUB
30 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceNELSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Craft: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Hudson Pit & PlantIronProducer

Every working recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Craft in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 3 hail, 3 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
March 2008Thunderstorm WindCraft$25,000Along U.S. Hwy. 69, south of Jacksonville, Texas, several trees and a power line sustained damage. Damage also occured at a greenhouse on the west side of U.S. Hwy. 69. NWS survey concluded straight line winds caused this damage.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindCraft-A tree was blown down onto a vehicle along Highway 69 just southeast of Jacksonville.
April 2019HailCraft-Golf ball size hail fell on the south side of Jacksonville.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindCraft-A tree was blown down on Highway 69 near the Seven Mile Hill area between Jacksonville and Rusk.
January 2012HailCraft-Dime size hail reported along Hwy. 49 just south of Jacksonville, Texas.
February 2008HailCraft-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cherokee 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
Turney2.2 miles12
Jacksonville3.7 miles10
Mittie3.7 miles12
New Hope3.9 miles10
Dialville4.2 miles11
Gallatin5.1 miles12
Lake View5.4 miles10
Hume5.5 miles10

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.

Wikipedia article on CraftAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5180521The 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 1378176. 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.