Onion Spring, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Alpine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79830. It lies near Onion Flat. The Survey maps it on the Sombrero Peak quadrangle.

Onion Spring within Brewster County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1903 USGS Chisos Mountains quadrangle1:125000
1905 USGS Chisos Mountains quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Emory Peak quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Emory Peak quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Sombrero Peak quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Chisos Mountains quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Onion Spring between 1996 and 2018, burning about 11 acres in total. 6 started naturally. None was 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
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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
1 August 2016	Natural	6.0 acres	Big Bend National Park	LITTLE CHRISTMAS
4 July 2017	Natural	2.5 acres	Big Bend National Park	PAINT GAP
24 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	YETTI
24 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	MILE MARKER 5
9 May 1996	Natural	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	CROTON
23 May 2018	Natural	1.9 acres	Big Bend National Park	CROTON
10 April 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Big Bend National Park	TODD HILL

Every fire recorded in Brewster 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
Basin Junction	6.1 miles	13
Panther Junction	8.4 miles	10
Study Butte	11.9 miles	16
McKinney Springs	13.7 miles	11
Terlingua	15.9 miles	16
Lunas	16.6 miles	15
Glenn Springs (historical)	19.2 miles	12
Terlingua Abaja	20.3 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1377843. 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.