Spurlin, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hico census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76531. The Survey maps it on the Gentrys Mill quadrangle.

Spurlin within Hamilton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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.

1888 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Gentrys Mill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Hico quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1985 USGS Comanche quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

47 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Spurlin between 2005 and 2020, burning about 925 acres in total. 3 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 burning	19
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Natural	3
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	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 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
15 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	206 GRASS FIRE
29 August 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
26 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
15 August 2006	Smoking	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
15 August 2006	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
8 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
26 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BOTTLINGER HAY FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton 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
Sunshine	1.4 miles	15
Olin	2.9 miles	15
Springtown	3.9 miles	15
Carlton	5.4 miles	16
Gentrys Mill	5.8 miles	15
Fairy	8.3 miles	12
Hamilton	9.7 miles	13
Midway	10.4 miles	13

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 Spurlin	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122569865	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 1379106. 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.