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Deer Creek, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Henrietta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76365. The Survey maps it on the Deer Creek quadrangle.

Deer Creek within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

75 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Deer Creek between 2006 and 2020, burning about 5,985 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined27
Equipment and vehicle use19
Natural13
Debris and open burning7
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRYAN EDWARDS ROAD
9 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD JOY SHANNON FIRE
6 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use50 acresTexas A & M Forest Service90906
27 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHAPMAN RD GRASS FIRE
2 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2007Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deer Creek in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 1998: 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 1997Tornado (F0)Deer Creek$500A small tornado, probably a gustnado, blew part of the roof off a barn.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindDeer Creek$250Severe thunderstorm winds blew windows out of a house.
March 1998HailDeer Creek-one mile south of the intersection of FM 172 and FM 1883, on FM 1883
April 1994HailDeer Creek-no account filed
August 1994HailDeer Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Bluegrove4.0 miles7
Joy5.6 miles7
Halsell6.5 miles8
Buffalo Springs9.6 miles7
Shannon11.3 miles9
Prospect11.8 miles8
Dickworsham12.1 miles8
Frame12.8 miles8

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 Deer CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q127705246The 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 1379647. 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.