Willow Springs, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Fayetteville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78940. The Survey maps it on the Industry quadrangle.

Willow Springs within Fayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1919 USGS Fayettsville quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Industry quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Eagle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Willow Springs between 2001 and 2012, burning about 93 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
3 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SOUTH BRANCH - 29
23 August 2010	Debris and open burning	75 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SANDY LANE
4 March 2002	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CENTRAL TX - 15
20 February 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 954 FIRE
2 December 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MUTUAL AID
15 October 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	UNATTENDED CONTROLLED BURN
3 January 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CENTRAL TX - 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette 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
Haw Creek (historical)	3.1 miles	7
Rek Hill	3.2 miles	11
Fayetteville	5.7 miles	11
Roznov	5.9 miles	11
Tamberg	7.5 miles	11
Warrenton	7.9 miles	7
Park	8.2 miles	10
Round Top	8.5 miles	7

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 Willow Springs	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8022361	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 1380787. 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.