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Hot Springs, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1959 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Alpine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79834. It stands on Tornillo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rio Grande Village quadrangle. It stands 1,863 feet above sea level.

Hot Springs within Brewster County

On record in Hot 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 1 record

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Hot Springs between 1993 and 2017, burning about 341 acres in total. 11 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
Natural11
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 August 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreBig Bend National ParkHOT SPRINGS CANYON
5 August 1996Naturalunder an acreBig Bend National ParkAMPITHEATE
10 August 1999Misuse of fire by a minor13 acresBig Bend National ParkBARKER
25 July 2015Natural62 acresBig Bend National ParkCROSSING
19 July 2002Naturalunder an acreBig Bend National ParkBOQUILLAS
12 July 1994Naturalunder an acreBig Bend National ParkTUNNEL
28 June 2005Arson/incendiarism15 acresBig Bend National ParkOVERLOOK
14 June 1997Naturalunder an acreBig Bend National ParkELF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brewster County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hot Springs: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Ojo CalienteFluorine-FluoriteOccurrenceFluorite
Ojo CalienteFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Unnamed OccurrencesFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Brewster 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
Rio Grande Village1.6 miles10
Boquillas Crossing2.5 miles10
San Vicente Crossing3.8 miles12
Casa de Piedra6.5 miles12
Rooneys Place7.2 miles12
Comptons8.0 miles12
Glenn Springs (historical)8.4 miles12
Solis10.1 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 Hot SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5910432The 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 1385422. 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.