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Richland Springs, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Richland Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76871. It lies near Hooten Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Richland Springs quadrangle. 244 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,407 feet above sea level.

Richland Springs within San Saba County

Population over time

3 figures

Richland Springs fell from 333 to 244 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000333
2010338+5 (+2%)
2020244-94 (-28%)

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.

Fires near this place

87 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Richland Springs between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,624 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Equipment and vehicle use16
Arson/incendiarism5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTATE 190
6 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2020Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLORD
4 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAMMRICK (3)
4 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRAY 2
30 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Saba County

Storms near this place

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richland Springs in 13 storm reports between 1993 and 1994: 11 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 1993HailRichland Springs$500,000Golf ball-size hail was reported in Richland Springs. Windows were knocked out of building and several cars were damaged.
October 1993HailRichland Springs$50,000Golf ball-size hail fell intermittently for an hour, knocking out windows and damaging cars.
May 1994HailRichland Springs-Wind gusts to 70 mph unroofed several houses and blew out windows.
October 1993HailRichland Springs-Golf-ball size hail was once again reported in Richland Springs.
October 1993HailRichland Springs-Golf ball-size hail fell for the third time in one day.
October 1993HailRichland Springs-For the third time within 24 hours golf-ball size hail was reported in the Town of Richland Springs.
October 1993HailRichland Springs-Golf ball-size hail fell for the third time in one day.
April 1993HailRichland Springs-The sheriff's office reported dime-size hail in Richland Springs. Several minutes later wind gust to 60 mph, and dime-size hail were reported by the public in Richland Springs. The sheriff's office then reported a funnel cloud and quarter-size hail in Sloan, west of San Saba. A tornado was later reported in Hall Valley, only minor damage in a field was reported. One inch hail was reported in the city of San Saba by a Television-36 stormtracker.
April 1993Thunderstorm WindRichland Springs-The sheriff's office reported dime-size hail in Richland Springs. Several minutes later wind gust to 60 mph, and dime-size hail were reported by the public in Richland Springs. The sheriff's office then reported a funnel cloud and quarter-size hail in Sloan, west of San Saba. A tornado was later reported in Hall Valley, only minor damage in a field was reported. One inch hail was reported in the city of San Saba by a Television-36 stormtracker.
April 1993HailRichland Springs-The sheriff's office reported dime-size hail in Richland Springs. Several minutes later wind gust to 60 mph, and dime-size hail were reported by the public in Richland Springs. The sheriff's office then reported a funnel cloud and quarter-size hail in Sloan, west of San Saba. A tornado was later reported in Hall Valley, only minor damage in a field was reported. One inch hail was reported in the city of San Saba by a Television-36 stormtracker.
May 1994HailRichland Springs-no account filed
April 1993HailRichland Springs-no account filed
April 1993Thunderstorm WindRichland Springs-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Algerita5.7 miles13
Hall5.8 miles14
Skeeterville5.9 miles14
Sloan7.7 miles13
Locker7.9 miles15
China Creek8.3 miles14
Holt8.4 miles14
Spring Creek8.7 miles14

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 Richland SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q973466The 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 1366434. 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.

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.