Spring Valley, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Moody-Lorena census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76655. It lies near Hubby Hill. The Survey maps it on the South Bosque quadrangle.

Spring Valley within McLennan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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.

1892 USGS Temple quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1931 USGS Mc Gregor quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS South Bosque quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Temple quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

87 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Spring Valley between 2006 and 2020, burning about 419 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Arson/incendiarism	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	3
Natural	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
6 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	UNATTENDED CONTROLLED BURN
6 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
27 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
25 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	SMALL GRASS FIRE
13 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
12 September 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2550027
11 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	VIOLATION OF BURN BAN
8 August 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McLennan 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
Lorena	4.1 miles	16
South Bosque	5.7 miles	16
Atco	6.0 miles	16
Bruceville	6.2 miles	15
Ritchie	6.4 miles	16
Hewitt	6.6 miles	16
Bruceville-Eddy	6.8 miles	16
McGregor	7.0 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380590. 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.