Mountain Springs, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Gainesville Southeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76272. The Survey maps it on the Mountain Springs quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1954 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Mountain Springs quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Denton quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Denton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
168 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 168 fires within 5 miles of Mountain Springs between 2005 and 2018, burning about 874 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 | 90 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 41 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 922 |
| 7 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | VALLEY VIEW ASSIST |
| 24 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 70 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | VALLEY VIEW ASSIST |
| 22 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | LAKE KIOWA MUTUAL AID |
| 13 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | VALLEY VIEW ASSIST |
| 10 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | VALLEY VIEW ASSIST |
| 8 August 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | VALLEY VIEW ASSIST |
| 6 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mountain Springs in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1994 | Hail | Mountain Springs | $5,000 | Car windows were broken by large hail. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Road Runner | 2.2 miles | 9 | |
| Burns City | 2.2 miles | 13 | |
| Bloomfield | 2.9 miles | 9 | |
| Hemming | 4.0 miles | 9 | |
| Valley View | 6.4 miles | 8 | |
| Lake Kiowa | 6.9 miles | 13 | |
| Shady Grove | 7.1 miles | 12 | |
| Woodbine | 9.1 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1363383. 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.
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.




