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Clear Springs, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Chireno-Martinsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75937. It stands on Terrapin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Etoile North quadrangle.

Clear Springs within Nacogdoches County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Clear Springs between 1992 and 2018, burning about 991 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 8 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
Debris and open burning17
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
8 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE CANCELLED
8 September 1998Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 1993Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 1993Arson/incendiarism15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 1993Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2000Natural35 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 455
18 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
26 August 2011Natural22 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 451

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nacogdoches 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
Suttons Mill1.5 miles12
La Cerda2.1 miles12
Chireno2.9 miles13
Etoile6.1 miles12
Attoyac6.5 miles11
Woden7.8 miles12
Melrose8.0 miles11
Shirley Creek10.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1381663. 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.