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Rock Springs, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Valley Mills census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76689. It stands on Rock Springs Creek. The Survey maps it on the Valley Mills quadrangle.

Rock Springs within Bosque County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

194 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Rock Springs between 2003 and 2020, burning about 2,210 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 4 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 burning103
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Equipment and vehicle use32
Smoking9
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 2015Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRAILER PARK
8 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service145-15
7 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMARROW #2
7 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service157-17
7 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use40 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMARROW
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest Service155-17
6 September 2017Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceZWICKEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bosque 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
Valley Mills3.5 miles16
Cayote6.1 miles15
Greenock6.7 miles16
Pendell6.9 miles12
Mosheim10.6 miles12
Clifton10.8 miles12
Womack11.2 miles15
Smiths Bend11.6 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380907. 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.