Cherry Spring, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Harper census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78624. The Survey maps it on the Cherry Spring quadrangle. It stands 1,791 feet above sea level.

Cherry Spring within Gillespie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1894 USGS Kerrville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Cherry Spring quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Kerrville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

29 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Cherry Spring between 2005 and 2018, burning about 1,300 acres in total. 2 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	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
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
8 September 2008	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
20 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
20 September 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
30 August 2009	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WASSERFALL RD
23 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	26 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	KOTHE
15 August 2015	Natural	200 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RR386/THREADGILL CREEK RD/JACKRABBIT RD
27 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	US87S/E. DUSTY WHITETAIL TRL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gillespie 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
Hilltop	6.3 miles	11
Doss	7.0 miles	11
Cherry Mountain	8.3 miles	11
Crabapple	9.5 miles	12
Eckert	15.2 miles	12
Fredericksburg	16.1 miles	12
Tivydale	16.7 miles	11
Willow City	17.3 miles	12

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 Cherry Spring	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5092472	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 1379538. 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.