Holt, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Richland Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76872. The Survey maps it on the Hall quadrangle.

Holt within San Saba County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1894 USGS Brady quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1928 USGS Mercury quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Mercury quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Hall quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Brady quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

60 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Holt between 2005 and 2020, burning about 3,803 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	30
Debris and open burning	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Smoking	1
Natural	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
6 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ELM GROVE FIRE
4 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	40 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	POWELL
4 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GOSSETT
27 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ELM GROVE FIRE
27 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
2 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	A D MCKINNERNEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Saba 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Skeeterville	3.8 miles	14
Elm Grove	4.0 miles	15
Bowser	4.3 miles	15
Hall	6.1 miles	14
Locker	7.1 miles	15
Richland Springs	8.4 miles	14
Spring Creek	11.2 miles	14
Algerita	13.7 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379949. 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.