Port Sullivan, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Burlington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76520. The Survey maps it on the Calvert quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Port Sullivan within Milam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 8 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.

1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1962 USGS Calvert quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

27 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Port Sullivan (historical) between 2005 and 2020, burning about 214 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning	11
Arson/incendiarism	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 August 2011	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	STROUD FIRE
6 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
30 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
26 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
19 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	7.5 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BARRACUDA
20 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
2 July 2013	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DONALD JOHNSON FIRE
19 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Milam 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
Branchville	3.2 miles	7
Nashville (historical)	4.8 miles	7
Gause	6.9 miles	7
Crossroads	7.3 miles	7
Maysfield	7.9 miles	7
Hanover	8.3 miles	7
Jones Prairie	8.9 miles	7
Liberty	10.8 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034806. 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.