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Hughes Springs, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hughes Springs-Avinger census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75656. It stands on Cloninger Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lone Star quadrangle. 1,575 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 377 feet above sea level.

Hughes Springs within Cass County

Population over time

2 figures

Hughes Springs fell from 1,760 to 1,575 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,760
20201,575-185 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 12 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

218 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 218 fires within 5 miles of Hughes Springs between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,577 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 29 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 burning120
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Arson/incendiarism29
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural6
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMORRIS 12:45
5 September 1997Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHILLCREST FIRE
30 September 2010Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2010086
30 September 2000Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 471
30 September 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2013059
19 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 170

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Hughes Springs: 11 occurrences, 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Water, Free. 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
Lone Star DepositsIron, Water, FreePast Producer1830, 1855
Oak Grove-Rock Springs DepositIron, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite, Siderite
Chambers-HughesIronOccurrence
Chambers-Hughes DepositIronOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite, Siderite
Ed WestIronOccurrence
Ed West DepositIronOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite
Hooten Hill DepositIronOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite, Siderite
Lone Star Steel Hughes Springs MineIronPast Producer
Lone Star Steel Limonite PitsIronPast Producer
Lone Star Steel Main PitsIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hughes Springs in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado. 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
August 1994Thunderstorm WindHughes Springs$500,000Fourteen streets were blocked by fallen trees. Two cars were crushed and roofs were damaged by falling trees. Power lines were also blown down.
November 1994Thunderstorm WindHughes Springs$5,000Trees were blown down by high winds.
May 1994Tornado (F0)Hughes Springs$5,000A brief tornado touchdown blew down some trees.
November 1994Thunderstorm WindHughes Springs$5,000A barn was unroofed by high winds.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindHughes Springs$5,000A mobile home was damaged by a falling tree from high winds.
January 1995Thunderstorm WindHughes Springs-Trees were blown down by high winds.
May 1994HailHughes Springs-Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindHughes Springs-Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
October 1994Thunderstorm WindHughes Springs-Trees were blown down.
May 1994HailHughes Springs-Water was four feet deep at intersection of Highway 49 and Highway 11.
May 1995HailHughes Springs-no account filed
January 1994HailHughes Springs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Love2.2 miles12
Patman4.3 miles12
Sardis4.8 miles10
Pruitt Lake7.5 miles12
Avinger7.9 miles12
Cornett9.5 miles11
Carterville9.7 miles10
Bear Creek10.7 miles11

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 Hughes SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982245The 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 1338249. 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.

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.