BlockHurst Springs, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Turnersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76634. It stands on South Fork Hog Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hurst Spring quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1888 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Hurst Spring quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Mosheim quadrangle1:62500
- 1985 USGS Waco quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
65 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Hurst Springs between 2003 and 2020, burning about 930 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 burning | 42 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | 65 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CENTRAL TX - 40 |
| 17 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 23 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 546 |
| 1 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 18-OCT |
| 7 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 444 |
| 5 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.2 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 437 |
| 5 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 150 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 65 |
| 5 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 130 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COUNTY ROAD 3150 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Hurst Springs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q120962116 | The 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 2034584. 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.