Spring Creek, 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. The Survey maps it on the Blucher Mountain quadrangle.

Spring Creek within San Saba County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

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
1980 USGS Blucher Mountain quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS San Saba quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

20 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Spring Creek between 2006 and 2020, burning about 2,799 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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	7
Debris and open burning	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6

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
29 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MILLER
6 August 2012	Debris and open burning	41 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BUZZARD CREEK FIRE
5 August 2012	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	EDMONDSON
31 August 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ALCORN
1 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
26 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,935 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	KIRK RANCH
23 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONELL
23 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	285 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	REGENCY FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Saba 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
Locker	4.3 miles	15
Fairview	5.9 miles	14
China Creek	6.7 miles	14
Skeeterville	7.5 miles	14
Bowser	8.3 miles	15
Richland Springs	8.7 miles	14
Algerita	8.8 miles	13
McMillan	9.3 miles	15

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 Spring Creek	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q116973577	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 1380584. 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.