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Marshall Creek, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Justin-Roanoke census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76262. It stands on Cade Branch. The Survey maps it on the Argyle quadrangle. 431 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 610 feet above sea level.

Marshall Creek within Denton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

53 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Marshall Creek between 2005 and 2020, burning about 551 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined31
Arson/incendiarism7
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
20 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePARK VISTA
8 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceALLIANCE GATEWAY
8 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceI35
7 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use16 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7 HILLS
7 August 2008Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCCURDY
5 August 2006Arson/incendiarism40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMARSHALL CREEK- 172
12 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceALLIANCE GATEWAY
5 July 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Denton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Marshall Creek: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Denton 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
Roanoke1.3 miles11
Trophy Club1.9 miles18
Elizabethtown3.6 miles10
Bartonville5.6 miles11
Corral City5.8 miles11
Flower Mound5.9 miles12
Double Oak6.2 miles12
Justin6.6 miles10

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 Marshall CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q973381The 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 1388543. 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.