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Spring Gardens, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Bishop census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78380. The Survey maps it on the Robstown quadrangle. 497 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Spring Gardens within Nueces County

Population over time

2 figures

Spring Gardens fell from 563 to 497 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.

YearPeople Change
2010563
2020497-66 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

18 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Spring Gardens between 2006 and 2013, burning about 99 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM2826
4 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHY44 @ CR 83 A
8 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHY 44 @ CR 83
17 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 77 CO RD 36
16 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service4906 CO RD 28
22 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWESTERN & WEST AVE D
31 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nueces 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
Rabb2.7 miles8
Lost Creek3.4 miles9
San Pedro3.8 miles13
North San Pedro4.1 miles13
Banquete4.2 miles8
Robstown4.3 miles13
Rancho Banquete5.9 miles8
Driscoll6.1 miles11

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 GardensAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5842044The 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 2652418. 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.