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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.

Valley Spring within Llano County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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

45 since 2005

Regional 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/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use11
Debris and open burning10
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
4 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGARY BAUMAN
26 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOSBOURN CO.RD. 402
26 September 2011Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCO. RD. 413
26 September 2011Natural30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceABELL #1
9 August 2009Debris and open burning200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHARTMAN FIRE
6 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE ASSIST VALLEY SPRINGS
4 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use250 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD FRED 2
3 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDAVIS CR 408

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Llano County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Iron Mountain ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Iron Mountain MineIronPast Producer1890
South of Valley Spring Becton OreIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Llano 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
Field Creek7.4 miles17
Baby Head (historical)8.9 miles17
Scotts Crossing9.0 miles15
Llano10.2 miles17
Castell13.2 miles16
Lone Grove13.2 miles16
Stolz14.9 miles16
Bluffton17.5 miles18

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 SpringAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7912204The 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.