Cold Springs, Texas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Fort Cavazos census division. The Survey maps it on the Bland quadrangle.

Cold Springs within Coryell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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 Gatesville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1924 USGS Gatesville 4-a quadrangle1:48000
1930 USGS Killeen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1947 USGS Bland quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Killeen quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Bland quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Killeen quadrangle1:62500
1985 USGS Temple quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1995 USGS Bland quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

52 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Cold Springs between 2003 and 2020, burning about 488 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	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Equipment and vehicle use	7

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
3 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	TIPPETT PLACE
23 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 330 FIRE
14 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CARL DROSCHE
14 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	8.6 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DONALD GILLASPIE
8 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE AT FBC FLAT PARSONAGE
6 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MULTIPLE FIRES
19 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
17 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	TINA COPPIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coryell 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
Riggs Ford	2.6 miles	17
Flat	4.7 miles	16
The Grove	5.3 miles	17
Mason Crossing	5.8 miles	17
Leon Junction	6.9 miles	17
Mound	7.7 miles	16
Saint Elijah Village	9.2 miles	15
Middle Crossing	9.6 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379570. 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.