Ward Spring, Texas

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.

• 1896 USGS Austin quadrangle1:125000
• 1897 USGS Austin quadrangle1:125000
• 1910 USGS Austin quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1955 USGS Austin quadrangle1:62500
• 1968 USGS Pflugerville West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Austin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
• 1987 USGS Pflugerville West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Ward Spring between 2005 and 2017, burning about 2,250 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Three Points
• Wells Branch
• Windemere
• Dessau Fountains
• Idyle Hour Acres
• Kings Village

Every fire recorded in Travis County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ward Spring: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Calcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Travis County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380742. 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.