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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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 San Antonio quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Medina Lake quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Pipe Creek quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS New Braunfels quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS New Braunfels quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Photographs
6 photographs, 2014Taken 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.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
20 since 2005Regional 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 burning | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 989 OILWELL |
| 8 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 March 2006 | Smoking | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 March 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PRIVILAGE CREEK |
| 16 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | NATHAN MARTIN |
| 16 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PRIVILAGE CREEK |
| 15 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 100 BLOCK RANCH ROAD EAST |
| 14 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | PRIVILAGE CREEK ESTATES |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1996 | Hail | Pipe Creek | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Pipe Creek | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lakehills | 0.0 miles | 11 | |
| Bandera Falls | 3.5 miles | 11 | |
| English Crossing | 3.6 miles | 11 | |
| Bandera | 7.3 miles | 9 | |
| Lake Hills | 9.6 miles | 10 | |
| Highland Waters | 10.8 miles | 9 | |
| Lake Medina Highlands | 10.8 miles | 10 | |
| Medina | 17.2 miles | 9 |
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 Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7197212 | 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 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.





