Wheeler Springs, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Porter Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75835. It stands on Little Elkhart Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stanmire Lake quadrangle.

Wheeler Springs within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Stanmire Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Crockett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

54 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Wheeler Springs between 1996 and 2020, burning about 396 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 3 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	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Fireworks	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
6 September 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2009304
4 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 229 R.O.W.
30 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODSFIRE TEJAS SHORES
6 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7078
6 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 680
3 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2010210
29 August 2020	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HOUSTON 20:12
28 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	53 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7090

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston 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
Halls Bluff Town (historical)	1.5 miles	10
Halls Bluff	1.6 miles	10
Reynard	2.4 miles	10
Porter Springs	7.6 miles	10
Oldham	8.8 miles	11
Hays Spring	8.9 miles	9
El Caney	9.0 miles	11
Latexo	9.2 miles	11

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 Wheeler Springs	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54871427	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 1380766. 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.