Lee Spring, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Bullard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75762. The Survey maps it on the Bullard quadrangle. It stands 436 feet above sea level.

Lee Spring within Smith County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1946 USGS Bullard quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Bullard quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1973 USGS Bullard quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

286 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 286 fires within 5 miles of Lee Spring between 1992 and 2018, burning about 951 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 17 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 burning	174
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	54
Arson/incendiarism	17
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Smoking	9
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4

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 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	C.R. 165
5 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	BIG TIMBER AND OLD CAMBELL
26 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BIG EDDY FIRE
25 September 2015	Debris and open burning	3.5 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	JACKSON HEIGHTS GRASS FIRE
24 September 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	VILLAGES RANCH
23 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	RIDGLEY CIR
23 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	14458 HWY 155 S.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Smith 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
Flint	1.4 miles	14
Gresham	1.7 miles	14
Noonday	2.4 miles	16
New Hope	4.2 miles	14
Pine Trail Estates	4.6 miles	16
Galilee	4.8 miles	16
Teaselville	4.8 miles	16
Copeland	5.6 miles	14

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 Lee Spring	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076521	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 1378575. 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.