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Field Creek, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Llano North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76869. It lies near Panther Rock. The Survey maps it on the Pontotoc quadrangle.

Field Creek within Llano County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 17 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

24 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Field Creek between 2005 and 2018, burning about 1,188 acres in total. None 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
5 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSAN SABA CO/RR501/CR381/SMILLER
25 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTHOMPSON CO. RD 405
15 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSIMPSON, JIMMY
18 August 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEZRA COOK 411B
30 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 June 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOLD CREEK CAR
10 June 2013Equipment and vehicle use100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSH71/HICKORY GROVE RD/MCGOWAN RANCH RD..QUARRY
10 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSH71/RR501

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Llano County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Field Creek: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kothmann TractManganeseUnknown1910

Every working recorded in Llano County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Field Creek in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2021: 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
April 2021HailField Creek-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail southeast of Pontotoc on CR 405. Hail accumulation reached three inches.
April 2017Flash FloodField Creek-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing CR 405 at San Fernando Creek.

Every storm recorded in Llano 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
Valley Spring7.4 miles18
Scotts Crossing13.8 miles15
Castell13.9 miles16
Baby Head (historical)15.5 miles17
Llano17.4 miles17
Lone Grove20.5 miles16
Stolz22.3 miles16
Prairie Mountain23.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379763. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.