Specht Store, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the San Antonio North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78260. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bulverde quadrangle.

Specht Store within Bexar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1953 USGS Bulverde quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Bulverde quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS New Braunfels quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Bulverde quadrangle1:24000
1992 USGS New Braunfels quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

56 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Specht Store between 2005 and 2012, burning about 1,688 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Debris and open burning	12
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
5 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	120 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	STONE OAK FIRE
4 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TIMBERLINE FIRE
16 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
8 August 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SMITHSON VALLEY FIRE
4 August 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	440 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BLANCO ROAD - 67
23 August 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	HIGH RIDGE
2 August 2012	Debris and open burning	145 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	OBST
14 August 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	LONGHORN TRAIL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bexar 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
Timberwood Park	1.9 miles	11
Kentwood Manor	8.2 miles	14
Hollywood Park	8.4 miles	14
Hill Country Village	9.6 miles	14
Dominion	10.0 miles	11
Leon Springs	10.4 miles	12
Luxello	10.6 miles	11
Wetmore	10.7 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.

Wikidata item Q122554131

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 2034952. 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.