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Bold Springs, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Livingston-Onalaska census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77351. The Survey maps it on the New Willard quadrangle.

Bold Springs within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

67 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Bold Springs between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,097 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 6 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 burning35
Natural13
Arson/incendiarism6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 200
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 201
7 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 675
4 September 2000Natural125 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 657
30 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 202
21 September 2016Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8058

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk 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
Patonia2.5 miles13
Colita3.6 miles12
New Willard5.6 miles13
West Tempe6.1 miles13
Leggett6.2 miles13
Seven Oaks6.4 miles13
Marston6.7 miles13
Walda7.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034861. 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.