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Fall Creek, Texas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Granbury East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76049. It stands on Rocky Branch. The Survey maps it on the Acton quadrangle.

Fall Creek within Hood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 21 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

57 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Fall Creek between 1999 and 2018, burning about 880 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
7 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasVALLEYVIEW
26 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3900 RHEA CT.
25 September 2015Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCRUBE COURT
22 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOMANCHE VISTA
12 August 2011Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCLEBURN HWY.
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSANDY BEACH
30 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE GRASS
30 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCANYON RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hood 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
El Tesoro0.4 miles21
Pecan Plantation2.7 miles19
DeCordova3.2 miles21
Acton4.0 miles21
Fort Spunky5.0 miles19
Mambrino5.2 miles19
Waples7.0 miles21
Neri7.0 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378286. 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.