Crane, TX
Transparent derived index from EPA TRI / SDWIS / Superfund extracts: not an official EPA rating. Fixed caps: facilities ≤25 pts (50+ = max), log10 releases ≤25 pts, Superfund ≤25 pts (5/site), health-violation systems ≤15 pts (3/system), high-chemical facilities ≤10 pts. Bands: High ≥60, Moderate ≥30. See methodology. This is a different measure than the EJ Screening score for this county, which ranks it by percentile against other tracked counties rather than against these fixed caps.
Environmental data for Crane in Texas · Population: 4,623
TRI sites such as Sand Hills Gas Plant; Midway Gas Plant; Bp America Production Block 31 Gas Plant; SDWIS systems such as CITY OF CRANE anchor Crane, TX's EPA extract. Derived burden score 34/100 (Moderate Risk) uses fixed national caps on density, log release volume, Superfund count, and health-flagged systems - not an official EPA rating.
Health-flagged SDWIS rows in Crane include CITY OF CRANE, while Sand Hills Gas Plant leads reported TRI pounds among local Form R filers. No AQS county monitors report here.
Burden score 34/100 (Moderate Risk) is the only weighted composite on this page. The tables below list every TRI facility, SDWIS system, and Superfund site EPA has on record for Crane -- not just the names called out above -- reproducing the disclosure history as filed, not a current-safety verdict. Extract current as of 2026-08-25.
Release-over-release change
What changed for Crane, TX: EPA TRI 2023 reporting year
Same facilities, both years
-49.9%
2 facilities that filed in 2022 and 2023
Whole inventory
+54.0%
40.5 million lb → 62.4 million lb, every facility that filed
These two measures point in opposite directions. Releases from the facilities present in both years fell, while the inventory-wide total rose. The difference is which facilities filed, not a different estimate of the same plants.
Between the two reporting years, 1 facility filed for the first time and 0 stopped filing. Facilities entering or leaving the inventory are excluded from the same-facility comparison above.
- Crane, TX's total reported releases fell from 40.5 million lb in 2022 to 20.3 million lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Crane, TX's land releases fell from 40.4 million lb in 2022 to 20.2 million lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Crane, TX's off-site transfers rose from 3.5 thousand lb in 2022 to 4.9 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Crane, TX's chemicals reported rose from 10 in 2022 to 11 in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
Water Systems (1)
| System | System pop (SDWIS) | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| CITY OF CRANE | 3,996 | 37 |
TRI Facilities (3)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sand Hills Gas Plant | 60.7M lbs |
| 2 | Midway Gas Plant | 42.1M lbs |
| 3 | Bp America Production Block 31 Gas Plant | 91.6K lbs |
Cities in Crane (1)
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This county environmental profile rolls up EPA Toxics Release Inventory facility reports, Safe Drinking Water Information System public-water-system filings, and Superfund National Priorities List sites for the county boundary defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. Facility counts reflect facilities with a reporting address inside the county, not where downstream environmental effects may be observed. Population figures are from the most recent Census ACS 5-year estimate. The county detail page is updated whenever the upstream EPA programs publish revised data; see the methodology page for the documented ingest cadence and the editorial choices governing how aggregations are computed.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.