Grape Creek

History

Grape Creek CDP is on Grape Creek just north of U.S. Highway 87 and the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway in north central Tom Green County. The area was populated as early as 1858, when the Butterfield Overland Mail established a Grape Creek station on the east bank of the east fork of Grape Creek near the present-day community. [https://web.archive.org/web/20031209103128/http://www.texasalmanac.com/history/highlights/butterfield/] The community was founded before 1900. In 1901, the community had a school for 26 pupils and one teacher, and by 1934, it had three elementary schools and a high school. State highway maps in 1936 showed the school, a church, a nearby cemetery, and scattered dwellings in the community. By the 1980s, the Grape Creek-Pulliam School was in operation, and the area had become the site of a new subdivision known as Grape Creek Community.

Geography

Grape Creek is located at (31.581679, -100.547371). According to the United States Census Bureau in 2000, the CDP has a total area of 17.2 square miles (44.6 km), all land. Prior to the 2010 census, the CDP lost area, reducing it to a total area of , all land as before.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• Northern Mockingbird

  Mimus polyglottos (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  2,159
• White-winged Dove

  Zenaida asiatica (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  2,077
• House Sparrow

  Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,988
• Northern Cardinal

  Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,711
• Turkey Vulture

  Cathartes aura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,527
• House Finch

  Haemorhous mexicanus (P.L.Statius Müller, 1776) · Aves
  1,462
• Mourning Dove

  Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,433
• Great-tailed Grackle

  Quiscalus mexicanus (Gmelin, 1788) · Aves
  1,305

Most recent

• M 2.9 — 2026-07-19
  6 km WSW of Westbrook, Texas
• M 2.6 — 2026-06-10
  5 km SSW of Westbrook, Texas
• M 2.6 — 2026-06-01
  18 km SSE of Westbrook, Texas
• M 3.3 — 2026-04-20
  26 km S of Westbrook, Texas
• M 2.9 — 2026-03-03
  24 km SSW of Westbrook, Texas
• M 2.9 — 2026-01-27
  11 km S of Forsan, Texas