Crystal Lake, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Palestine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75801. It stands on Snake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Southeast Palestine quadrangle. It stands 331 feet above sea level.

Crystal Lake within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1951 USGS Elkhart quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:100000
1982 USGS Southeast Palestine quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

210 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 210 fires within 5 miles of Crystal Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,170 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 21 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	111
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	34
Arson/incendiarism	21
Natural	18
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	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 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ELK90088
8 September 2009	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 210
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 227
8 September 2005	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 228
5 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ACR 379
4 September 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	250 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 468
22 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 561
22 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 559

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson 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
Kossuth	0.4 miles	11
Deanwright	2.0 miles	10
Jarvis	3.4 miles	11
Alderbranch	4.3 miles	11
Wells Creek	4.8 miles	13
Herring	5.7 miles	11
Palestine	6.8 miles	13
Cronin	7.3 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 Crystal Lake	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076454	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 2034804. 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.