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Holly Springs, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Nacogdoches census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75946. It stands on Telesco Creek. The Survey maps it on the Garrison West quadrangle.

Holly Springs within Nacogdoches County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Holly Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,022 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 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 burning63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks2
Recreation and ceremony2
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 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 213
9 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 524
7 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 489
6 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 516
4 September 1998Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 570

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nacogdoches County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holly 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
October 1994Thunderstorm WindHolly Springs$500,000Damage to killed chickens and chicken houses was estimated at 60-70,000 dollars; numerous trees were also blown down.

Every storm recorded in Nacogdoches 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
Appleby2.9 miles12
Fitze3.3 miles11
Whispering Pines3.6 miles11
Pleasant Hill3.6 miles11
North Redland4.5 miles12
Pisgah4.5 miles12
Mahl5.3 miles12
Cedar Point6.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379948. 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.