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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.

Buffalo Springs within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

96 since 2005

Regional 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/undetermined33
Equipment and vehicle use19
Debris and open burning17
Natural12
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1

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
5 September 2009Natural20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCLICK RD & BUFFALO SPRINGS RD FIRE
24 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMAYFIELD HILL FIRE
24 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMAYFIELD HILL #2
17 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service148 AND PEDON
17 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBURNS 148
9 August 2011Natural15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAMMOND AND WEBB ROAD
7 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOJS AND WYNN RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

4 since 2016

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2025Flash FloodBuffalo Springs-A portion of FM-174, just west of the Brock Road intersection, was impassable due to flooding. Event time is approximate.
November 2021HailBuffalo Springs-no account filed
April 2016HailBuffalo Springs-no account filed
April 2016HailBuffalo Springs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Joy4.3 miles7
Vashti5.2 miles7
Prospect5.8 miles8
Shannon8.5 miles9
Bellevue8.7 miles7
Newport9.0 miles7
Bluegrove9.4 miles7
Deer Creek9.6 miles8

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 SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4985854The 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.