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Park Springs, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Bridgeport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76225. The Survey maps it on the Sunset quadrangle.

Park Springs within Wise County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

175 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Park Springs between 1993 and 2020, burning about 3,702 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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 burning80
Missing data/not specified/undetermined49
Equipment and vehicle use20
Arson/incendiarism6
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural2
Smoking2

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
3 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
29 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONTROLLED BURN
24 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONTROLLED BURN
23 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
20 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
20 September 2014Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
20 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE 250
17 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCCLURE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wise County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Park 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
May 1995HailPark Springs-Numerous trees were damaged by high winds.

Every storm recorded in Wise 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
Crafton5.2 miles8
Alvord7.3 miles9
Chico7.6 miles8
Lake Bridgeport13.7 miles10
Bridgeport13.9 miles10
Rickels15.3 miles10
Runaway Bay16.7 miles8
Decatur17.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1364819. 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.