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Clear Springs, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Seguin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78130. The Survey maps it on the New Braunfels East quadrangle.

Clear Springs within Guadalupe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

178 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Clear Springs between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,185 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined87
Debris and open burning36
Equipment and vehicle use17
Smoking12
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1101 FIRE
27 September 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNOV-23
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNOV-65
18 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFAUST FIRE
16 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNOV-18
11 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1900 IH 35 N FIRE
7 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceST MARY ST, 14-5133
7 August 2009Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1120 ALTWEIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guadalupe County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Clear Springs: 6 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Sulfur, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brauntex Pit & PlantLimestone, GeneralProducer
Tilden Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
Txi Cement Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hays County Gravel Company PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kollman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Guadalupe 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
Lake Dunlap0.7 miles14
Camp Willow0.9 miles14
Schumannsville2.3 miles14
Barbarosa3.5 miles14
Geronimo5.0 miles15
McQueeney6.0 miles14
Hilda Siding6.1 miles14
Lauback7.1 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1384862. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.