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.
Population over time
2 figuresSam 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,181 | |
| 2020 | 1,273 | +92 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Mc Gee Bend quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS McGee Bend quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
- 2003 USGS McGee Bend quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
338 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 185 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 46 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 35 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 22 |
| Natural | 13 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LAKESHORE WOODS FIRE |
| 9 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | LAKESHORE GROUND COVER |
| 9 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 9100 |
| 8 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 9170 |
| 4 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 35 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 669 |
| 4 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 35 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 609 |
| 30 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Rayburn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q970636 | The 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.







