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Crystal Falls, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Breckenridge North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76424. It stands on Hubbard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Crystal Falls quadrangle.

Crystal Falls within Stephens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

39 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Crystal Falls between 2002 and 2020, burning about 784 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Natural9
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism2

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 2009Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 178 CRYSTAL FALLS
15 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 183 BOAT 1
12 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 183 BOAT2
1 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined152 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORTH TX - 1
31 August 2013Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 578/1481
27 August 2019Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceVEALE FIRE
2 August 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 178

Every fire recorded in Stephens County

Storms near this place

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crystal Falls in 15 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 11 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
October 1993Thunderstorm WindCrystal Falls$5,000Trees were uprooted by high winds.
April 2020HailCrystal Falls$1,000no account filed
March 2020Tornado (EF0)Crystal Falls-A severe thunderstorm developed in Shackelford County, then moved northeast into western Stephens County. The storm crossed Hubbard Creek Reservoir before gaining additional rotation evident on radar. As the storm moved into northern Stephens County, a tornado developed near Crystal Falls. The tornado was rated an EF-0 with damage confined to broken tree limbs. Maximum wind speeds were around 65 mph.
April 2020HailCrystal Falls-Quarter size hail was reported 10 miles south of Woodson.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindCrystal Falls-Emergency management reported multiple post oak trees blown down in high winds near the county line at FM 578.
May 2005HailCrystal Falls-30 mph wind and hail ranging from pea to quarter size reported.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindCrystal Falls-Tree blown down by high winds.
April 2003HailCrystal Falls-no account filed
April 2002HailCrystal Falls-no account filed
April 2002HailCrystal Falls-no account filed
October 2001HailCrystal Falls-no account filed
September 2001HailCrystal Falls-no account filed
May 1996HailCrystal Falls-no account filed
August 1996HailCrystal Falls-no account filed
August 1994HailCrystal Falls-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stephens 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
Ivan9.0 miles14
Breckenridge9.7 miles14
South Hanlon11.7 miles14
Eolian16.9 miles13
Caddo17.4 miles13
Necessity18.3 miles12
Mankins Mill18.7 miles13
Wayland20.1 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378191. 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.