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Cypress Creek, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Kerrville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78028. It lies near Lazy Valley. The Survey maps it on the Cypress Creek quadrangle.

Cypress Creek within Kerr County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

37 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Cypress Creek between 2006 and 2020, burning about 279 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Natural1

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
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCYPRESS CREEK
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service100 BLK OF SCHLADOER
3 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTEELER RANCH
28 September 2011Natural23 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFALTINE RANCH FIRE
27 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service519 MM EB IH10
1 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 87 FIRE/SEMI TIRE
29 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service230 SOUTH FORK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kerr 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
Shady Grove5.9 miles9
Center Point6.0 miles9
Guadalupe Heights6.7 miles9
Legion7.4 miles12
Kerrville8.9 miles13
Mount Wesley10.4 miles13
Camp Verde10.9 miles9
Ingram14.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378197. 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.