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.
Population over time
3 figuresRichland 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 333 | |
| 2010 | 338 | +5 (+2%) |
| 2020 | 244 | -94 (-28%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1885 USGS San Saba quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS San Saba quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1930 USGS Richland Springs quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Richland Springs quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Richland Springs quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1979 USGS Richland Springs quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS San Saba quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
87 since 2005Regional 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 burning | 32 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 27 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | STATE 190 |
| 6 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 2020 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LORD |
| 4 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HAMMRICK (3) |
| 4 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | RAY 2 |
| 30 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 21 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1993 | Hail | Richland Springs | $500,000 | Golf ball-size hail was reported in Richland Springs. Windows were knocked out of building and several cars were damaged. |
| October 1993 | Hail | Richland Springs | $50,000 | Golf ball-size hail fell intermittently for an hour, knocking out windows and damaging cars. |
| May 1994 | Hail | Richland Springs | - | Wind gusts to 70 mph unroofed several houses and blew out windows. |
| October 1993 | Hail | Richland Springs | - | Golf-ball size hail was once again reported in Richland Springs. |
| October 1993 | Hail | Richland Springs | - | Golf ball-size hail fell for the third time in one day. |
| October 1993 | Hail | Richland Springs | - | For the third time within 24 hours golf-ball size hail was reported in the Town of Richland Springs. |
| October 1993 | Hail | Richland Springs | - | Golf ball-size hail fell for the third time in one day. |
| April 1993 | Hail | Richland 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 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richland 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 1993 | Hail | Richland 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 1994 | Hail | Richland Springs | - | no account filed |
| April 1993 | Hail | Richland Springs | - | no account filed |
| April 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richland Springs | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algerita | 5.7 miles | 13 | |
| Hall | 5.8 miles | 14 | |
| Skeeterville | 5.9 miles | 14 | |
| Sloan | 7.7 miles | 13 | |
| Locker | 7.9 miles | 15 | |
| China Creek | 8.3 miles | 14 | |
| Holt | 8.4 miles | 14 | |
| Spring Creek | 8.7 miles | 14 |
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 Springs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q973466 | 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 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.







