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New Birthright, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the North Hopkins-Sulphur Bluff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75482. The Survey maps it on the Tira quadrangle.

New Birthright within Hopkins 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.

Fires near this place

25 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of New Birthright between 2003 and 2019, burning about 466 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
24 September 2011Natural39 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 629
2 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 6215
4 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.1 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN-6173
1 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 6163
18 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use46 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOPKINS 13:17
2 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 May 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 April 2018Debris and open burning16 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOPKINS 15:57

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of New Birthright: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur. 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
Birth Right Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer

Every working recorded in Hopkins 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
Birthright1.0 miles9
North Hopkins1.8 miles9
Addran1.8 miles9
Weir2.3 miles9
Shirley2.7 miles9
Oak Grove2.8 miles9
Hatchetville3.0 miles9
Oakdale3.6 miles9

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.

Wikidata item Q122540235The 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 1363691. 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.