Stricklin Springs, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Waskom census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75672. The Survey maps it on the Stricklin Springs quadrangle.

Stricklin Springs within Harrison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1943 USGS Waskom quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS Waskom quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1962 USGS Stricklin Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Henderson quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

214 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 214 fires within 5 miles of Stricklin Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,102 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 16 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	119
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50
Arson/incendiarism	16
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE LOS ALTOS
8 September 2011	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RABBIT ROAD COMMAND
7 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	OLD WOODLEY ROAD COMMAND
7 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRIBBLE COMMAND
5 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODS FIRE
30 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	6202
30 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 9 COMMAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison 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
Crossroads	4.6 miles	14
Elysian Fields	4.7 miles	13
Jonesville	5.1 miles	16
Waskom	5.9 miles	16
Scottsville	8.8 miles	14
Gill	10.3 miles	13
Lotta	10.4 miles	15
Leigh	12.0 miles	14

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.

Wikidata item Q122552169

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 1379123. 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.