Pine Springs, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Van Horn Rural census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79847. It lies near Pine Spring Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Guadalupe Peak quadrangle. It stands 5,480 feet above sea level.

Pine Springs within Culberson County

On record in Pine Springs

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Pinery Stationlisted 1974 · 0.1 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1933 USGS Guadalupe Peak quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1933 USGS Guadalupe Peak quadrangle1:48000
1940 USGS Guadalupe Peak quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Van Horn quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Van Horn quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Guadalupe Peak quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Guadalupe Peak quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Guadalupe Peak quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Pine Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,833 acres in total. 32 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	32
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
25 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Guadalupe Mountains National Park	PEAK
17 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Guadalupe Mountains National Park	BUSH TRAIL
16 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Guadalupe Mountains National Park	SOLDIER
13 August 1995	Natural	18 acres	Guadalupe Mountains National Park	BARTLETT
9 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	Guadalupe Mountains National Park	BLUE
9 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	Guadalupe Mountains National Park	TEJAS
8 July 1993	Natural	under an acre	Guadalupe Mountains National Park	RIDGE
4 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	Guadalupe Mountains National Park	HAIL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Culberson 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 Pine Springs: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed Prospect	Copper, Silver	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Culberson County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Springs in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
October 1995	Tornado (F1)	Pine Springs	-	A supercell just south of the New Mexico border first produced a funnel cloud just east of the boundary of Guadalupe Mountains National Park. A ranger from the park later reported a tornado east of the park as the storm moved slowly to the east-southeast.

Every storm recorded in Culberson 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
Pinery (historical)	0.1 miles	14
Frijole (historical)	1.9 miles	14
Nickel Creek Station	4.2 miles	6
State Line	16.6 miles	6
Pezuna del Caballo	23.3 miles	7
Old Christian Place	37.3 miles	6
Grisham Pumping Station	44.7 miles	8
Ort	47.8 miles	8

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 Pine Springs	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7195357	The 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 1380360. 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.