BlockBefore

Reilly Springs, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Seymore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75482. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sulphur Springs SE quadrangle.

Reilly Springs within Hopkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

97 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Reilly Springs between 2000 and 2019, burning about 783 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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 burning62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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
8 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service09082011B
7 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODS FIRE
7 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service09072011B
3 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR.1819
21 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2006Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service9142016
12 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins 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 Reilly Springs: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur. 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
Como Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer

Every working recorded in Hopkins County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Reilly 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
March 1995HailReilly Springs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hopkins 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
Seymore2.9 miles15
Crossroads2.9 miles15
Greenpond3.0 miles9
Union3.2 miles9
Grubbe4.1 miles15
Tazewell5.3 miles9
Como5.4 miles8
Martin Springs5.7 miles9

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 Q122572364The 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 1345027. 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.