Buffalo Springs, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Dalhart census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79022. It stands on Aqua Fria Creek. The Survey maps it on the Buffalo Springs quadrangle. It stands 4,282 feet above sea level.

Buffalo Springs within Dallam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1954 USGS Dalhart quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Dalhart quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Dalhart quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Buffalo Springs quadrangle1:24000
1998 USGS Buffalo Springs quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

11 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Buffalo Springs between 2006 and 2016, burning about 665 acres in total. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
13 September 2015	Natural	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BUFFALO SPRINGS
9 August 2008	Natural	56 acres	Cibola National Forest	BERTRAND
7 July 2016	Natural	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	RITA BLANCA UNIT 120
16 June 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	35 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FELT RD & FM 296
13 June 2006	Natural	320 acres	Cibola National Forest	RB-45
29 May 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	21
17 February 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FELT M/A
15 November 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	110 acres	Cibola National Forest	HWY. 296

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallam 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Thompson Grove	5.5 miles	7
Coldwater	7.2 miles	7
Corlena	14.9 miles	7
Perico	15.5 miles	7
Texline	15.9 miles	8
Ware	21.0 miles	6
Bolin	24.8 miles	6
Bunker Hill	25.6 miles	6

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 Q1002078

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 1381546. 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.