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Indian Springs, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Livingston-Onalaska census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77351. The Survey maps it on the Soda quadrangle. 892 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 367 feet above sea level.

Indian Springs within Polk County

Population over time

2 figures

Indian Springs grew from 785 to 892 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
2010785
2020892+107 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

136 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Indian Springs between 1993 and 2020, burning about 657 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 11 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 burning89
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
28 September 2011Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 943
27 September 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePOLK 11:40
5 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2008Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 August 2000Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 581
24 August 2006Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 296
21 August 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 118
19 August 2011Natural4.0 acresAlabama-Coushatta TribeKOWEE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk 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
New Camp Ruby0.8 miles12
Camp Ruby1.2 miles12
Kiam5.9 miles12
Crystal Lakes Country Estates6.5 miles13
Ollie6.7 miles13
Providence7.8 miles12
Dallardsville7.9 miles12
Israel8.0 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 Indian SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5915258The 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 2034157. 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.