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New Summerfield, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the New Summerfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75780. It lies near Gill Mountain. The Survey maps it on the New Summerfield quadrangle. 843 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 472 feet above sea level.

New Summerfield within Cherokee County

Population over time

2 figures

New Summerfield fell from 1,111 to 843 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,111
2020843-268 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

264 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 264 fires within 5 miles of New Summerfield between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,382 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 15 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 burning164
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use15
Smoking14
Natural10
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 110
7 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4221 GRASS FIRE
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 856 AND CR 4716
3 September 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4222
25 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service397 PENNY LANE
25 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service715 CR 4227
25 September 2012Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service79&110
24 September 1994Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Summerfield in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2020Thunderstorm WindNew Summerfield-Numerous trees were downed across the northern portions of Cherokee County.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindNew Summerfield-Numerous trees were downed throughout much of Cherokee County.
May 2016HailNew Summerfield-Dime size hail fell on Stallings Road just west of the New Summerfield community.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindNew Summerfield-A tree was downed on Hwy. 79 around New Summerfield, Texas.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindNew Summerfield-Trees were downed on the west side of New Summerfield on Hwy. 79 east of the Mud Creek bridge.
April 2010HailNew Summerfield-Nickel sized hail was reported in New Summerfield, Texas.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindNew Summerfield-One tree down along Hwy. 110 just south of town.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindNew Summerfield-Several trees were blown down across Hwy 110.
February 2008HailNew Summerfield-no account filed
May 2006HailNew Summerfield-no account filed
May 2006HailNew Summerfield-no account filed
March 2000HailNew Summerfield-no account filed
March 1999HailNew Summerfield-no account filed
March 1996Thunderstorm WindNew Summerfield-no account filed
May 1994HailNew Summerfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cherokee 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
Emmaus3.4 miles15
Lone Star3.5 miles11
Rock Hill3.8 miles11
Griffin4.1 miles15
Pine Hill4.3 miles11
Blackjack4.9 miles15
Ponta5.7 miles11
Gould6.0 miles15

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 New SummerfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978834The 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 1342512. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.