Nickel Creek Station, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Van Horn Rural census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79847. The Survey maps it on the Independence Spring quadrangle.

Nickel Creek Station within Culberson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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.

1954 USGS Van Horn quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Van Horn quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Independence Spring quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Guadalupe Peak quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Guadalupe Peak quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Nickel Creek Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 228 acres in total. 25 started naturally. None 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
Natural	25
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Smoking	3
Fireworks	1

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
8 July 1998	Natural	under an acre	Guadalupe Mountains National Park	LAMAR
8 July 1993	Natural	under an acre	Guadalupe Mountains National Park	RIDGE
5 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	Guadalupe Mountains National Park	MCKITTRICK
4 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	Guadalupe Mountains National Park	HAIL
3 July 2019	Natural	under an acre	Guadalupe Mountains National Park	BEAR
26 July 1992	Natural	under an acre	Guadalupe Mountains National Park	FLASH
25 July 1994	Fireworks	under an acre	Guadalupe Mountains National Park	FIREWORK
24 July 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Guadalupe Mountains National Park	TRAILER3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Culberson County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Nickel Creek Station: 3 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Stone, Dimension, Fluorine-Fluorite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Mccombs Ranch Quarries	Stone, Dimension	Producer	Sedimentary
Unnamed Occurrence	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence	Fluorite
Unnamed Prospect	Copper, Silver	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Copper, Silver	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Culberson 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
Frijole (historical)	2.2 miles	14
Pine Springs	4.2 miles	14
Pinery (historical)	4.3 miles	14
State Line	12.4 miles	6
Pezuna del Caballo	24.6 miles	7
Old Christian Place	36.1 miles	6
Grisham Pumping Station	43.6 miles	8
Ort	47.8 miles	8

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 Nickel Creek Station	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122548475	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 1363882. 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.