Buffalo Springs, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bellevue-Joy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76228. The Survey maps it on the Joy quadrangle. It stands 1,066 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Joy quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
96 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Buffalo Springs between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,448 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 33 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Debris and open burning | 17 |
| Natural | 12 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2009 | Natural | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CLICK RD & BUFFALO SPRINGS RD FIRE |
| 24 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MAYFIELD HILL FIRE |
| 24 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | MAYFIELD HILL #2 |
| 17 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 148 AND PEDON |
| 17 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 9 August 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BURNS 148 |
| 9 August 2011 | Natural | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HAMMOND AND WEBB ROAD |
| 7 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OJS AND WYNN RD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buffalo Springs in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2025: 3 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2025 | Flash Flood | Buffalo Springs | - | A portion of FM-174, just west of the Brock Road intersection, was impassable due to flooding. Event time is approximate. |
| November 2021 | Hail | Buffalo Springs | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Buffalo Springs | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Buffalo Springs | - | no account filed |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Buffalo Springs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4985854 | 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 1353209. 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.



