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Pond Springs, Texas

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Round Rock-Georgetown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78729. The Survey maps it on the Jollyville quadrangle.

Pond Springs within Williamson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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

42 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Pond Springs between 2005 and 2016, burning about 274 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Smoking7
Debris and open burning4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2006Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCNEIL
16 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pond Springs: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Allen Pit & PlantLimestone, GeneralProducer
Unnamed QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Williamson 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
Jollyville0.8 miles23
Anderson Mill1.1 miles23
Turkey Hollow3.2 miles17
Cedar Park4.2 miles17
Brushy Creek5.0 miles19
White Stone5.4 miles17
Walkerton6.3 miles17
Round Rock6.9 miles19

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.

Wikidata item Q122541259The 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 1365560. 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.