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Thorp Spring, Texas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Granbury East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76048. It stands on Blue Branch. The Survey maps it on the Granbury quadrangle. It stands 761 feet above sea level.

Thorp Spring within Hood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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

140 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Thorp Spring between 2005 and 2020, burning about 629 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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/undetermined74
Debris and open burning39
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE LARGE
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE GRASS
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE GRASS
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBLACK DIAMOND
26 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWHISPERING OAKS
25 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE SMALL
23 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hood County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Thorp Spring: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ingram Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hood 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
Oak Trail Shores1.1 miles19
Granbury2.8 miles19
Fairview3.1 miles20
Brazos Bend3.4 miles19
Waples5.7 miles21
Brushy6.0 miles19
Center Mill6.4 miles20
Acton7.5 miles21

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 Q122558815The 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 1348515. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.