BlockTrout Creek, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Call census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75933. It stands on Trout Creek. The Survey maps it on the Trout Creek quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1952 USGS Lake Charles quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Lake Charles quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Kirbyville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Trout Creek quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS DeRidder quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
341 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 341 fires within 5 miles of Trout Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,178 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 110 were 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 | 181 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 110 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 27 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS |
| 8 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODS |
| 4 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 30 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 94 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON-957 |
| 30 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 325 |
| 30 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 29 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 28 September 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trout Creek in 11 storm reports between 2009 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Trout Creek | $5,000 | An EF1 tornado began Southeast of Call and moved across mostly forest. The tornado snapped or uprooted many trees along its path before crossing the Sabine River and moving into Beauregard Parish west of Bancroft. The tornado crossed the Sabine River near the east end of Magnum Road. The tornado path in Newton county was 3.94 miles long and 50 yards wide. |
| April 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trout Creek | $2,000 | A NWS Storm Survey found a few trees blown down near the Trout Creek community. |
| February 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trout Creek | $1,000 | FM 1416 closed at the Big Cow Creek Bridge due to downed powerlines and trees. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trout Creek | $1,000 | A tree was blown down near the intersection of Highway 87 and County Road 3154 south of Trout Creek. |
| April 2024 | Flash Flood | Trout Creek | - | Deputy reports around Trout Creek indicated 4 to 5 inches of water over area roads. |
| March 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trout Creek | - | A wind gust of 54 knots was recorded at the mesonet station KRBT2. |
| October 2015 | Flash Flood | Trout Creek | - | Heavy rain produced flooding near and north of Trout Creek. The Newton County 911 Call Center reported water over Highway 82. |
| October 2013 | Flash Flood | Trout Creek | - | Heavy rain from training thunderstorms produced the flooding and closure of numerous county roads along Big Cow Creek between Newton and Call. |
| August 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Trout Creek | - | SKYWARN spotter reported a funnel cloud visible from Highway 96 in Kirbyville to the east in Newton County. |
| February 2009 | Hail | Trout Creek | - | Penny size hail fell 10 miles southeast of Kirbyville. |
| March 2009 | Hail | Trout Creek | - | The public reported penny size hail 15 miles south of Newton along Highway 87 near the Trout Creek community. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1370151. 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.