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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1943 USGS Rusk quadrangle1:62500
- 1945 USGS Rusk quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Jacksonville East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
445 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 281 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 66 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 20 |
| Smoking | 19 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 12 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 4462 CR 3108 |
| 8 September 2017 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 1416 |
| 8 September 2011 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 1614 |
| 7 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7 MILE HILL |
| 6 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | #7048 |
| 4 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | COUNTRY CLUB |
| 30 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | NELSON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hudson Pit & Plant | Iron | Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 2008Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Craft | $25,000 | Along 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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Craft | - | A tree was blown down onto a vehicle along Highway 69 just southeast of Jacksonville. |
| April 2019 | Hail | Craft | - | Golf ball size hail fell on the south side of Jacksonville. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Craft | - | A tree was blown down on Highway 69 near the Seven Mile Hill area between Jacksonville and Rusk. |
| January 2012 | Hail | Craft | - | Dime size hail reported along Hwy. 49 just south of Jacksonville, Texas. |
| February 2008 | Hail | Craft | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Craft | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5180521 | The 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.






