Welcome to Pine Springs ...

So far, we found very little information about Pine Springs. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Pine Springs to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Pine Springs, please Contact Us.

Pine Springs was located in Big Bend Country (West Texas).

Pine Springs would have been located within present day Culberson County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Pine Springs, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1942.

A typical abbreviation for Pine Springs: Pine Spgs. (or less commonly used: Pine Spngs. or Pine Sprngs.)

While the community is gone, the present day location for Pine Springs is 5,630 feet [1,716 m] above sea level.<3> In other words, the altitude of Pine Springs is about 1 mile [or ~1¾ km] above sea level.

Time Zone: The area where Pine Springs was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Note: If you travel west from Pine Springs (for example, toward Dell City), you will leave Central Time and cross into the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT).

If Pine Springs still existed, it would have been in the (915) area code.

Communities Also Named Pine Springs ...

While we believe that this Pine Springs is located in Culberson County, we know of another 2 Texas communities named Pine Springs. Those communities are located in the following counties: Bowie and Smith County.

Beyond Texas, there are 12 communities that are also named Pine Springs - they are located in Alabama, Arizona, Kentucky (2), Minnesota, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Ontario and Tennessee.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Pine Springs.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We're compiling a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Pine Springs. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Pine Springs.

We have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Pine Springs. See our Newspapers Page for Pine Springs.

Adding Pine Springs to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Pine Springs in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Pine Springs was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Pine Springs post office opened in 1942.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Pine Springs.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for State of Texas: https://texas.gov/