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Cryer Creek, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Corsicana census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75102. The Survey maps it on the Cryer Creek quadrangle.

Cryer Creek within Navarro County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

225 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 225 fires within 5 miles of Cryer Creek between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,661 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 16 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 burning117
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Equipment and vehicle use38
Arson/incendiarism16
Smoking5
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service7145 NWCR 1200
6 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
5 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service7404 HWY 22
30 September 2010Arson/incendiarism15 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1013500
3 September 2011Debris and open burning35 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1111906
29 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIVY
28 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service5757 FM 1126
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAY FIRE 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navarro County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cryer Creek in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2012: 2 hail. 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
August 2009HailCryer Creek-Quarter size hail was reported north of the city of Barry.
May 2012HailCryer Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Navarro 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
Barry2.3 miles8
Blooming Grove4.0 miles8
Emhouse4.8 miles9
Lone Oak5.5 miles8
Black Hills5.6 miles9
Drane6.9 miles9
Dresden6.9 miles8
Raleigh8.6 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378190. 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.

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.