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Pine Springs, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Tyler census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75708. The Survey maps it on the Tyler North quadrangle. It stands 486 feet above sea level.

Pine Springs within Smith County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

430 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 430 fires within 5 miles of Pine Springs between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,459 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 28 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 burning246
Missing data/not specified/undetermined84
Arson/incendiarism28
Smoking18
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony9
Natural5

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 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
9 September 2005Smoking10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 231
9 September 2004Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 120
8 September 2019Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSMITH 10:35
8 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6301
8 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6298
8 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Smith County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Pine Springs: 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Halite, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Limestone, General, Clay. 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
American Clay Forming PlantClayProducer
East Tyler Salt DomeHalite, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Limestone, GeneralOccurrenceAnhydrite, Calcite, Halite
Bell Dredge & PitSilicaProducer
Stricklin Dredge & PitSilicaProducer

Every working recorded in Smith 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
Bostick0.8 miles15
Shady Grove3.1 miles15
Tyler3.7 miles16
Owentown4.6 miles15
Bascom5.8 miles16
Swan5.9 miles15
Sand Flat6.2 miles15
Chapel Hill7.2 miles16

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 SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7195356The 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 1344073. 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.