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Sam Rayburn, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Jasper census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75931. The Survey maps it on the McGee Bend quadrangle. 1,273 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 200 feet above sea level.

Sam Rayburn within Jasper County

Population over time

2 figures

Sam Rayburn grew from 1,181 to 1,273 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
20101,181
20201,273+92 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

338 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 338 fires within 5 miles of Sam Rayburn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,932 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 35 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 burning185
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Arson/incendiarism35
Power generation/transmission/distribution22
Natural13
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking5
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLAKESHORE WOODS FIRE
9 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceLAKESHORE GROUND COVER
9 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 9100
8 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9170
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism35 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 669
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism35 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 609
30 September 1993Arson/incendiarism20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper 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
Horton3.9 miles9
Browndell5.0 miles9
Collins5.4 miles9
Ferguson5.8 miles13
Harveytown6.0 miles13
New Blox6.2 miles9
Westwood6.7 miles13
Ebenezer6.9 miles13

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 Sam RayburnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q970636The 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 2035025. 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.