Grape Creek, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the West Tom Green census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76901. The Survey maps it on the Mount Nebo quadrangle. 3,594 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,988 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGrape Creek grew from 3,154 to 3,594 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,154 | |
| 2020 | 3,594 | +440 (+14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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 San Angelo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Carlsbad quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Mount Nebo quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS San Angelo quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS San Angelo quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Robert Lee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
139 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Grape Creek between 2001 and 2020, burning about 709 acres in total. 2 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 burning | 72 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2012 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2012145 |
| 30 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 9209 SUN LN. |
| 30 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | MARCH RD & WALNUT GROVE |
| 18 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2012151 |
| 11 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 1 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2012141 |
| 8 August 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 10539 GLASS CT. |
| 4 August 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 6700 N. US HWY 87 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Grape Creek: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnerdale-1 | Copper | Occurrence | 1917 | |
| Unknown Abandoned Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grape Creek in 2 storm reports in 1993: 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1993 | Hail | Grape Creek | - | The San Angelo Fire Department reported dime-size hail near Grape Creek in northern Tom Green County. No damage resulted. |
| May 1993 | Hail | Grape Creek | - | Lightning struck and injured a man near O.C. Fisher Reservoir. As the storm moved east, spotters reported dime-size hail in the Grape Creek Community northwest of San Angelo. No damage was noted from the hail. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carlsbad | 5.4 miles | 9 | |
| Alvery Junction | 9.7 miles | 17 | |
| San Angelo | 9.9 miles | 17 | |
| Water Valley | 10.9 miles | 9 | |
| S N Junction | 11.8 miles | 17 | |
| Harriet | 12.3 miles | 15 | |
| Orient | 12.6 miles | 15 | |
| Sixmile Crossing | 13.3 miles | 13 |
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 Grape Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q979328 | 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 1852708. 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.





