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North Hopkins, 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.

North Hopkins 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 North Hopkins between 2003 and 2019, burning about 350 acres in total. 1 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 use3
Natural1
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
7 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4762
4 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.1 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN-6173
10 August 2011Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service286 SPUR 71
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
18 July 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 June 2012Equipment and vehicle use50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 6117
2 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

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 North Hopkins: 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
New Birthright1.8 miles9
Addran1.8 miles9
Posey2.2 miles8
Birthright2.8 miles9
Weir3.0 miles9
Harpers Crossing (historical)3.2 miles8
Oak Grove4.1 miles9
Peerless4.4 miles8

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 Q122559728The 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 2034624. 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.