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Myrtle Springs, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Canton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75169. The Survey maps it on the Myrtle Springs quadrangle. 954 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Myrtle Springs within Van Zandt County

Population over time

2 figures

Myrtle Springs grew from 828 to 954 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
2010828
2020954+126 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

163 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Myrtle Springs between 1999 and 2020, burning about 788 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined96
Debris and open burning54
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3301
8 September 2009Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2009-227
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3705
6 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 2301
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3103 REKINDLE
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service3103 VZCR 3103
4 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2624
30 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1/2 MILE NORTH OF HWY 64

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Zandt County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Myrtle Springs: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Myrtle Springs Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer

Every working recorded in Van Zandt County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Myrtle Springs in 1 storm report in 1995: 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
January 1995HailMyrtle Springs$25,000Hail larger than two inches in diameter caused severe damage to homes and penetrated into mobile homes.

Every storm recorded in Van Zandt 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
High3.3 miles13
Wallace4.4 miles13
Scott5.0 miles10
Cana5.1 miles10
Canton5.1 miles13
Edgewood6.5 miles12
Wentworth7.1 miles13
Watkins7.1 miles10

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 Myrtle SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6035285The 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 1342346. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.