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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Deer Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
75 since 2006Regional 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/undetermined | 27 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Natural | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2014 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRYAN EDWARDS ROAD |
| 9 September 2014 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 60 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OLD JOY SHANNON FIRE |
| 6 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 90906 |
| 27 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CHAPMAN RD GRASS FIRE |
| 2 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Deer Creek | $500 | A small tornado, probably a gustnado, blew part of the roof off a barn. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deer Creek | $250 | Severe thunderstorm winds blew windows out of a house. |
| March 1998 | Hail | Deer Creek | - | one mile south of the intersection of FM 172 and FM 1883, on FM 1883 |
| April 1994 | Hail | Deer Creek | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Hail | Deer Creek | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluegrove | 4.0 miles | 7 | |
| Joy | 5.6 miles | 7 | |
| Halsell | 6.5 miles | 8 | |
| Buffalo Springs | 9.6 miles | 7 | |
| Shannon | 11.3 miles | 9 | |
| Prospect | 11.8 miles | 8 | |
| Dickworsham | 12.1 miles | 8 | |
| Frame | 12.8 miles | 8 |
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 Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q127705246 | 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 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.



