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River Creek Acres, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the George West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78022. It lies near Gamble Gully. The Survey maps it on the George West quadrangle.

River Creek Acres within Live Oak County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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

32 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of River Creek Acres between 2006 and 2019, burning about 1,226 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/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use9
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
10 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceG.W GRASS FIRE
7 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRVFD2011-93
29 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRVFD2019097
20 July 2009Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRANCH
18 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRVFD2019092
8 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRVFD2019066
29 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined70 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 June 2014Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH 37 & HWY 59

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Live Oak 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
Mikeska0.9 miles12
George West4.4 miles12
Dinero6.7 miles12
La Para6.8 miles9
Ike8.6 miles11
Mount Lucas9.4 miles12
Oakville10.8 miles11
Hideaway Hill11.2 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122597732The 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 1345259. 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.