Creath, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Grapeland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75835. It stands on Wilcox Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ratcliff quadrangle.

Creath within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1950 USGS Ratcliff quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Ratcliff quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Crockett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2004 USGS Ratcliff quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

101 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Creath between 1992 and 2019, burning about 932 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 17 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	41
Arson/incendiarism	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Natural	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
4 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	3.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	FM 1733
30 September 1994	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
30 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named
28 September 2002	Smoking	5.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	CREATH
15 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named
13 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named
11 September 2015	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.5 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODS FIRE
7 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	REPORTED SMOKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Tadmor	2.8 miles	11
Harrison Town	3.2 miles	11
Burrantown	3.2 miles	11
Belott	4.5 miles	12
Center Hill	4.8 miles	11
Ratcliff	5.9 miles	11
Plain	6.0 miles	12
Glover (historical)	6.0 miles	10

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 Creath	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q120643492	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 1381713. 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.