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Springfield, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Montalba-Tennessee Colony census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75853. The Survey maps it on the Blackfoot quadrangle. It stands 390 feet above sea level.

Springfield within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Springfield between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,326 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning62
Equipment and vehicle use22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 1997Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2012Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 7123
29 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRADFORDVFD
29 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTURNER COATS
28 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2002Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 221

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Springfield in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2021: 2 hail, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2012Thunderstorm WindSpringfield$5,000Law enforcement reported trees down and part of a barn blown into the road; blocking FM 837 near Springfield.
October 2009FloodSpringfield$5,000Several secondary roads north of Palestine were flooded due to persistent rainfall over several hours.
October 2010HailSpringfield-Quarter size hail was reported at ACR 460 and FM 860 near Bois D'Arc.
April 2021HailSpringfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Anderson 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
Bradford2.1 miles12
Blackfoot3.2 miles12
Bois d'Arc3.4 miles12
Ward5.5 miles12
Bethel7.6 miles12
Montalba8.5 miles13
Cayuga9.2 miles12
Fosterville10.2 miles15

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 SpringfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48851723The 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 1380593. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.