Pecan Springs, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the San Saba census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76842. It stands on Hinton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pecan Springs quadrangle.

Pecan Springs within San Saba County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 12 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.

1894 USGS Brady quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Pecan Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Brady quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

10 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Pecan Springs between 2000 and 2019, burning about 6,074 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning	5
Natural	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
6 September 2000	Natural	5,205 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DEEP CREEK
24 August 2019	Natural	261 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRANDONBURGE
26 July 2017	Natural	150 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SAN SABA CO/DEER CREEK CEMENTRY RD/JMAYFIELD
2 July 2013	Debris and open burning	175 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SAN SABA CO/RR501/CR373/MCKNIGHT
11 July 2009	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SANSABACO/325CR389/J.CROW
10 May 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
16 April 2006	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
14 February 2011	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SAN SABA CO/SH 71/CR364/CR373/CR389/J.CROW

Every fire recorded in San Saba 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
Sloan	13.0 miles	13
Algerita	18.5 miles	13
Richland Springs	18.7 miles	14
Hall	18.7 miles	14
Cherokee	19.0 miles	17
Harkeyville	20.0 miles	13
San Saba	22.2 miles	16
China Creek	22.2 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380338. 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.