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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.

Grape Creek within Tom Green County

Population over time

2 figures

Grape 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.

YearPeople Change
20103,154
20203,594+440 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

139 since 2001

Regional 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 burning72
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Equipment and vehicle use19
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Smoking4
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
8 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2012145
30 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9209 SUN LN.
30 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMARCH RD & WALNUT GROVE
18 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2012151
11 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
1 September 2012Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2012141
8 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service10539 GLASS CT.
4 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service6700 N. US HWY 87

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tom Green County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Turnerdale-1CopperOccurrence1917
Unknown Abandoned Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Tom Green County

Storms near this place

2 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 1993HailGrape Creek-The San Angelo Fire Department reported dime-size hail near Grape Creek in northern Tom Green County. No damage resulted.
May 1993HailGrape 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.

Every storm recorded in Tom Green 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
Carlsbad5.4 miles9
Alvery Junction9.7 miles17
San Angelo9.9 miles17
Water Valley10.9 miles9
S N Junction11.8 miles17
Harriet12.3 miles15
Orient12.6 miles15
Sixmile Crossing13.3 miles13

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 CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q979328The 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.