Hickory Creek, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Crockett census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75835. It stands on Black Branch. The Survey maps it on the Crockett NE quadrangle.

Hickory Creek within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1950 USGS Crockett NE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1951 USGS Crockett NE quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Crockett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2004 USGS Crockett NE quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

71 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Hickory Creek between 1993 and 2019, burning about 6,334 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 were 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	41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	2011317
6 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2010253
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2011310
4 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BILLY RIEMENSCHNEIDER
4 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	4,931 acres	Livingston Area	ARBOR FIRE
4 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	3.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	FM 1733
30 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named
3 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	2011292

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Berea	3.1 miles	10
Belott	3.7 miles	12
Druso	3.9 miles	10
Center Hill	3.9 miles	11
Germany	4.5 miles	12
Harrison Town	5.4 miles	11
Arbor	6.0 miles	10
Creath	7.1 miles	11

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 Hickory Creek	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q49353731	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 1383342. 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.