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Cove Springs, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Jacksonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75766. The Survey maps it on the Mount Selman quadrangle. It stands 653 feet above sea level.

Cove Springs within Cherokee 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

396 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 396 fires within 5 miles of Cove Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,957 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 15 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 burning229
Missing data/not specified/undetermined81
Equipment and vehicle use23
Arson/incendiarism15
Power generation/transmission/distribution14
Smoking12
Natural9
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes2
Fireworks1
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 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 7127
9 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE CR3501 (130)
7 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS/FIRE FROM # 124 (132)
5 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 475
5 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2013Fireworks1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7107

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cove Springs: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Mount HavenIronProducer

Every working recorded in Cherokee 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
Church Hill1.9 miles10
Reese2.6 miles15
Lake View3.2 miles10
Larissa3.4 miles14
Corine3.5 miles10
Pomona3.5 miles14
Mountain Heaven3.6 miles10
Cuney4.1 miles15

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 Cove SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5178945The 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 1377265. 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.