Spanish Bluff, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the New Boston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75570. It stands on Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Daniels Chapel quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Spanish Bluff within Bowie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1951 USGS Daniels Chapel quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Spanish Bluff (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 752 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 14 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	34
Arson/incendiarism	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Natural	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	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
8 September 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2001
6 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
29 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
29 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
29 September 1994	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
25 September 2011	Natural	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 636
22 September 2002	Debris and open burning	45 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 194
18 September 1994	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bowie 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Woodstock	4.2 miles	11
Smith Hill	4.8 miles	11
Burns	5.4 miles	11
New Boston	5.9 miles	14
Whaley	6.1 miles	13
Redbank	6.9 miles	11
Boston	7.2 miles	14
Hooks	7.4 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034800. 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.