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Lake Creek, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Cooper census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75450. The Survey maps it on the Charleston quadrangle. It stands 443 feet above sea level.

Lake Creek within Delta County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

33 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Lake Creek between 2005 and 2018, burning about 414 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
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning9
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
15 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY.19
6 August 2006Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use46 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 552
30 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4215
3 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2949
27 August 2018Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBURKHART GRASS FIRE
15 August 2018Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 198 W

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delta County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Creek in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2012: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
March 2012Thunderstorm WindLake Creek$50,000Damaging downburst winds caused damage near the intersection of State Highway 24 and FM 198. A small barn lost most of its roof, and on the other side of the intersection, a large metal storage building also lost most of its roof. The roof was tossed about a hundred yards from the building. Part of the walls of the storage building collapsed as well. The storage building was determined to be a metal and wood frame with part of the roof partially rotted.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindLake Creek$30,000Strong winds blew the roof and the porch off a home.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindLake Creek$25,000Strong winds flipped a mobile home and blew down trees.
June 1997HailLake Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delta 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
Prattville1.6 miles8
Mount Joy2.6 miles8
Pacio2.8 miles8
Mount Joy Crossing2.9 miles8
Post Oak3.5 miles8
Enloe3.8 miles8
Charleston5.1 miles8
Vasco5.4 miles8

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 Lake CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6475534The 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 1360838. 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.