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Fort Clark Springs, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Brackettville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78832. The Survey maps it on the Brackettville quadrangle. 1,215 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,152 feet above sea level.

Fort Clark Springs within Kinney County

On record in Fort Clark Springs

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Fort Clark Springs fell from 1,228 to 1,215 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,228
20201,215-13 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

10 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Fort Clark Springs between 2006 and 2009, burning about 435 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1

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 March 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 March 2008Smoking5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 March 2008Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 February 2008Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 December 2008Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 January 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTEL POLE FIRE 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kinney County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Clark Springs in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1994Thunderstorm WindFort Clark Springs$5,000Winds estimated at 50 to 60 mph blew down several trees.

Every storm recorded in Kinney 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
Brackettville0.4 miles11
Alamo Village8.5 miles11
Pinto9.0 miles9
Spofford9.0 miles11
Anacacho10.2 miles11
Standart10.7 miles9
Amanda13.3 miles9
Odlaw14.3 miles12

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 Fort Clark SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4289078The 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 1357581. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.