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Craig, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Henderson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75652. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kilgore SE quadrangle.

Craig within Rusk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

309 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 309 fires within 5 miles of Craig between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,432 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 20 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 burning124
Missing data/not specified/undetermined106
Equipment and vehicle use23
Arson/incendiarism20
Smoking11
Natural10
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Fireworks3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Firearms and explosives use1

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 2013Fireworks4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6305
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2276 WF
7 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 225
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service17-0000286
6 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service176 WF (REKINDLE)
5 September 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service43 FIRE
5 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Craig: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Kaolin, Kaolin. 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
Henderson Clay Products Plastic PitKaolinProducer
Plastic PitsFire Clay (Refractory), KaolinProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Rusk County

Storms near this place

3 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Craig in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
September 2016LightningCraig$5,000Two salt water tanks were stuck by lightning resulting in a fire.
February 2026Thunderstorm WindCraig-Tree downed near County Road 118.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindCraig-Trees were blown down across FM 2276 north of Henderson.

Every storm recorded in Rusk 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
Crims Chapel (historical)0.5 miles15
Jacobs4.3 miles15
Oak Hill4.6 miles16
Cross Roads4.8 miles15
New Prospect4.9 miles12
Pirtle4.9 miles15
Pitner Junction5.0 miles15
Monroe5.5 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034848. 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.