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Quail Creek, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Victoria West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77905. It lies near Goldmans Hill. The Survey maps it on the Victoria West quadrangle. 1,800 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Quail Creek within Victoria County

Population over time

2 figures

Quail Creek grew from 1,628 to 1,800 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,628
20201,800+172 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

173 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Quail Creek between 2006 and 2020, burning about 679 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined80
Debris and open burning69
Equipment and vehicle use15
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
7 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSUTTON MOTT
7 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSW MOODY
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 446 FIRE
30 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMOODY
29 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceDELORAS
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 446
2 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOLETOVILLE
13 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 236 GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Victoria County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Quail Creek: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. 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
Chipley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Fordyce Co Chipley Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Victoria 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
Aloe0.7 miles9
Chipley2.6 miles9
Raisin3.1 miles8
Coletoville3.6 miles8
Victoria4.6 miles9
Oak Village5.3 miles7
Dupre6.0 miles9
Hughes6.1 miles8

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 Quail CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6094068The 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 2633238. 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.