Cat Spring, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Sealy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78933. It stands on Plum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cat Spring quadrangle. It stands 308 feet above sea level.

Cat Spring within Austin County

On record in Cat Spring

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Cat Spring Agriculture Society Pavilion, Cat Springfederal building survey, 5 photographs

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Bellville quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Cat Spring quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Eagle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

24 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Cat Spring between 1999 and 2020, burning about 90 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	10
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
6 September 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
3 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CAT SPRING/ PLESS
20 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
19 September 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CHAPMAN
29 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PRIESMEYER
27 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CAT SPRING VFD MUTUAL AID
27 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DAHL
11 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	JEFFREY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Austin 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
Millheim	4.5 miles	11
New Bremen	6.8 miles	10
Peters	7.4 miles	11
Bellville	8.1 miles	9
Macedonia	9.1 miles	11
New Ulm	9.3 miles	10
Nelsonville	9.9 miles	10
Sealy	10.0 miles	11

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 Cat Spring	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5051065	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 1332320. 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.