Owl Creek, Texas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Northwest Bell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76528. It stands on Flint Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bland quadrangle.

Owl Creek within Bell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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.

1894 USGS Gatesville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1924 USGS Gatesville 4-a quadrangle1:48000
1930 USGS Killeen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1947 USGS Bland quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Killeen quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Bland quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Killeen quadrangle1:62500
1985 USGS Temple quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1995 USGS Bland quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

67 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Owl Creek between 2002 and 2020, burning about 1,899 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Natural	3
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HORSESHOE BEND FIRE
4 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HORSESHOE BEND FIRE
3 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RHUDY FIRE
3 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	13057 IRON BRIDGE
23 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BURGANDY LANE FIRE
2 September 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CENTRAL TX - 38
14 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	8.6 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DONALD GILLASPIE
12 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	IRON BRIDGE RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bell 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
Bland	1.0 miles	19
Moffat	3.0 miles	16
Jubilee Springs	3.6 miles	16
Union Hill	4.2 miles	19
White Hall	4.4 miles	16
Meador Grove	4.9 miles	16
Morgans Point Resort	6.0 miles	16
Woodland	6.7 miles	16

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 Owl Creek	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q113331288	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 1380318. 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.