Valley Spring, Texas
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Llano North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76885. It lies near Phillips Rock. The Survey maps it on the Valley Spring quadrangle. It stands 1,312 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1887 USGS Llano quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Llano quadrangle1:125000
- 1904 USGS Llano quadrangle1:125000
- 1909 USGS Llano quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1918 USGS Llano quadrangle1:125000
- 1954 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Valley Spring quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Valley Spring quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Llano quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Llano quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
45 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Valley Spring between 2005 and 2019, burning about 1,305 acres in total. 5 started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GARY BAUMAN |
| 26 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OSBOURN CO.RD. 402 |
| 26 September 2011 | Natural | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CO. RD. 413 |
| 26 September 2011 | Natural | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ABELL #1 |
| 9 August 2009 | Debris and open burning | 200 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HARTMAN FIRE |
| 6 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSH FIRE ASSIST VALLEY SPRINGS |
| 4 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 250 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OLD FRED 2 |
| 3 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DAVIS CR 408 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Valley Spring: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iron Mountain Prospect | Manganese | Occurrence | ||
| Iron Mountain Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1890 | |
| South of Valley Spring Becton Ore | Iron | Occurrence |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Field Creek | 7.4 miles | 17 | |
| Baby Head (historical) | 8.9 miles | 17 | |
| Scotts Crossing | 9.0 miles | 15 | |
| Llano | 10.2 miles | 17 | |
| Castell | 13.2 miles | 16 | |
| Lone Grove | 13.2 miles | 16 | |
| Stolz | 14.9 miles | 16 | |
| Bluffton | 17.5 miles | 18 |
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 Valley Spring | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7912204 | 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 1380705. 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.











