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Indian Creek, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Brownwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76801. The Survey maps it on the Indian Creek quadrangle. It stands 1,326 feet above sea level.

Indian Creek within Brown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

52 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Indian Creek between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,258 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use15
Debris and open burning12
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE
1 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13500 CR 237
31 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2014Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service12237 CR237
6 July 2020Natural30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE
5 July 2013Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service17851 CR 229

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Indian Creek in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 7 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2024HailIndian Creek-Public reported nickel to quarter size hail. Also, estimated a 50 mph wind gust.
June 2023HailIndian Creek-Public reported quarter size hail.
December 2012Thunderstorm WindIndian Creek-A large hearty twenty to thirty foot Oak Tree was completely uprooted.
June 2009HailIndian Creek-Quarter size hail was reported along Highway 377.
April 2023HailIndian Creek-no account filed
May 2018HailIndian Creek-no account filed
March 2001HailIndian Creek-no account filed
April 2000HailIndian Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Keys Crossing3.9 miles15
Dulin6.3 miles13
Brookesmith7.6 miles13
Dalzell7.9 miles14
Fisk Crossing9.7 miles17
Tenmile Crossing9.9 miles20
Winchell10.2 miles16
Woodland Heights10.7 miles20

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 Indian CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6020118The 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 1379985. 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.

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.