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Sinclair City, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Troup-Arp census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75789. The Survey maps it on the Troup East quadrangle. It stands 433 feet above sea level.

Sinclair City within Smith County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

334 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 334 fires within 5 miles of Sinclair City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,444 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 10 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 burning194
Missing data/not specified/undetermined72
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use14
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking8
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service20014 CR 2147 FIRE
8 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFARM MARKET RD. 346 FIRE
6 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 15 & CR 2159 FIRE
5 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceARP DR. FIRE
30 September 2000Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 577
29 September 2006Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 573
27 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFARM MARKET RD. 13 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Smith 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 Sinclair City: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Troup PlantClayProducer

Every working recorded in Smith 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
Omen1.8 miles15
Arp2.2 miles15
Salem3.5 miles15
Troup4.3 miles15
Wright City4.9 miles13
Blackjack5.2 miles16
Whitehouse8.0 miles16
New Chapel Hill8.9 miles16

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 Sinclair CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076580The 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 1379081. 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.