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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.

Mountain Springs within Cooke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

168 since 2005

Regional 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 burning90
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Equipment and vehicle use17
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 922
7 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVALLEY VIEW ASSIST
24 September 2013Debris and open burning70 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVALLEY VIEW ASSIST
22 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceLAKE KIOWA MUTUAL AID
13 September 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVALLEY VIEW ASSIST
10 September 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVALLEY VIEW ASSIST
8 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVALLEY VIEW ASSIST
6 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cooke County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1994HailMountain Springs$5,000Car windows were broken by large hail.

Every storm recorded in Cooke 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
Road Runner2.2 miles9
Burns City2.2 miles13
Bloomfield2.9 miles9
Hemming4.0 miles9
Valley View6.4 miles8
Lake Kiowa6.9 miles13
Shady Grove7.1 miles12
Woodbine9.1 miles13

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.