BlockBlanket Springs, Texas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Mullin-Priddy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76864. The Survey maps it on the Blanket Springs quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 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.
- 1889 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1925 USGS Brownwood 3-d quadrangle1:48000
- 1928 USGS Zephyr quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Zephyr quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1979 USGS Blanket Springs quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Comanche quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
27 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Blanket Springs between 2008 and 2020, burning about 2,063 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2008 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 17 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR259 |
| 10 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR258 |
| 8 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR259A |
| 29 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SCARBOROGH FIRE |
| 27 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR259 |
| 26 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 179 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SLEDGE |
| 26 July 2018 | Natural | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COUNTY ROAD 259 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Q122599116 | The 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 1379429. 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.