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Apple Springs, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Apple Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75926. The Survey maps it on the Apple Springs quadrangle. 2,422 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Apple Springs within Trinity County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

87 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Apple Springs between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,147 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 12 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 burning36
Arson/incendiarism12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2009Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 245
7 September 2011Arson/incendiarism8.2 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasWOMACK #2
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined235 acresLivingston AreaWOMACK ROAD FIRE
30 September 1999Naturalunder an acreNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasHACKBERRY
19 September 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRINITY 18:54
18 September 2011Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBOLT CUTTER
14 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 906
10 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasNIGTON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trinity County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Apple Springs in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1994Thunderstorm WindApple Springs$5,000Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Trinity 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
Nigton3.1 miles10
Helmic3.1 miles10
Centralia4.6 miles11
Vair4.9 miles12
Crecy5.0 miles10
Centerville5.0 miles10
Nogalus6.8 miles11
Center Point7.2 miles11

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 Apple SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q621355The 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 1381331. 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.