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.
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.
Fort Clark Historic Districtlisted 1979 · 0.0 miles away- 1911 Kinney County Courthouselisted 2004 · 0.6 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresFort 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,228 | |
| 2020 | 1,215 | -13 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1896 USGS Brackett quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Brackett quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1897 USGS Brackettville quadrangle1:125000
- 1944 USGS Brackettville quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Brackettville quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 2006Regional 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 March 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 12 March 2008 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 10 March 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 1 March 2008 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 10 February 2008 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 December 2008 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 26 January 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | TEL POLE FIRE 1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Clark Springs | $5,000 | Winds estimated at 50 to 60 mph blew down several trees. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brackettville | 0.4 miles | 11 | |
| Alamo Village | 8.5 miles | 11 | |
| Pinto | 9.0 miles | 9 | |
| Spofford | 9.0 miles | 11 | |
| Anacacho | 10.2 miles | 11 | |
| Standart | 10.7 miles | 9 | |
| Amanda | 13.3 miles | 9 | |
| Odlaw | 14.3 miles | 12 |
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 Springs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4289078 | The 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.







