Sparks, Texas

Sparks grew from 4,529 to 4,760 between 2010 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.

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.

• 1896 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1908 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1941 USGS Clint quadrangle1:62500
• 1945 USGS Clint quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Clint NW quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1964 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000
• 1983 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1995 USGS Clint NW quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Sparks in 2011, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Agua Dulce Colonia
• Agua Dulce Number 4 Colonia
• Calcutta Colonia
• Grijalva Gardens Colonia
• Gurdev Colonia
• Hillcrest Manor Colonia

Every fire recorded in El Paso County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1867566. 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.