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Pipe Creek, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Bandera census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78063. It stands on Bear Springs Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pipe Creek quadrangle. It stands 1,362 feet above sea level.

Pipe Creek within Bandera County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Photographs

6 photographs, 2014

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Old Coca-Cola sign on a building in Pipe Creek, a small community in Bandera County, Texas
Old Coca-Cola sign on a building in Pipe Creek, a small community in Bandera County, Texas
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
The sign says "Welcome," but the vines tell another story at an old gas station near Pipe Creek in Bandera County, Texas
The sign says "Welcome," but the vines tell another story at an old gas station near Pipe Creek in Bandera County, Texas
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Old gasoline station in Pipe Creek, a small community in Bandera County, Texas
Old gasoline station in Pipe Creek, a small community in Bandera County, Texas
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Old gas station and pumps near Pipe Creek in Bandera County, Texas
Old gas station and pumps near Pipe Creek in Bandera County, Texas
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Old gas pump near Pipe Creek in Bandera County, Texas
Old gas pump near Pipe Creek in Bandera County, Texas
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Old Coca-Cola sign on a building in Pipe Creek, a small community in Bandera County, Texas
Old Coca-Cola sign on a building in Pipe Creek, a small community in Bandera County, Texas
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

20 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Pipe Creek between 2005 and 2019, burning about 62 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 April 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service989 OILWELL
8 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 March 2006Smoking4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 March 2009Arson/incendiarism15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePRIVILAGE CREEK
16 March 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNATHAN MARTIN
16 March 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePRIVILAGE CREEK
15 March 2019Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service100 BLOCK RANCH ROAD EAST
14 March 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePRIVILAGE CREEK ESTATES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bandera County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pipe Creek in 2 storm reports in 1996: 2 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
April 1996HailPipe Creek-no account filed
April 1996HailPipe Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bandera 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
Lakehills0.0 miles11
Bandera Falls3.5 miles11
English Crossing3.6 miles11
Bandera7.3 miles9
Lake Hills9.6 miles10
Highland Waters10.8 miles9
Lake Medina Highlands10.8 miles10
Medina17.2 miles9

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 Pipe CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7197212The 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 1344123. 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.