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Fort Spunky, Texas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Granbury East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76033. It lies near Barnard Knob. The Survey maps it on the Nemo quadrangle.

Fort Spunky within Hood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

27 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Fort Spunky between 2003 and 2018, burning about 699 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use6
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
14 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMITCHELL BEND FIRE
14 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use35 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRILEY RD 2 FIRE
9 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined110 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGEORGES CREEK 2
30 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE GRASS
29 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use46 acresTexas A & M Forest Service199
21 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROLLINS RD.
8 June 2011Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBONO 108
26 June 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFAWN CIR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hood County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Fort Spunky: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Capital Silica Plant and QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Charlie Phillips Crushed RockStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Capital Silica PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tarrant Concrete PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Texas Industries Cleburne PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hood 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
Pecan Plantation3.4 miles19
El Tesoro4.6 miles21
Fall Creek5.0 miles21
Mambrino6.3 miles19
Neri7.4 miles18
DeCordova7.7 miles21
Acton8.7 miles21
Brushy10.5 miles19

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.

Wikidata item Q122556579The 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 1378314. 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.