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Soncy, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Amarillo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79124. The Survey maps it on the Amarillo West quadrangle. It stands 3,730 feet above sea level.

Soncy within Potter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

199 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 199 fires within 5 miles of Soncy between 2005 and 2020, burning about 3,290 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 18 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined113
Equipment and vehicle use23
Arson/incendiarism18
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Smoking10
Debris and open burning9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural3

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-13059
7 September 2013Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2013-14249
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-12943
5 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1097
28 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-14035
13 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1035
10 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 34
9 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTWO DEER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Potter 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 Soncy: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Helium. 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
U S Bureau of Mines Helium-PlantHeliumProducer

Every working recorded in Potter County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Soncy in 4 storm reports in 2007: 3 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2007HailSoncy-Reported at Interstate 40 and Arnot Road.
June 2007Flash FloodSoncy-Vehicles were reported stalled at the Instate 40 and Bell Street underpass with flowing water curb to curb. No damage was reported.
June 2007HailSoncy-Reported near Interstate 40 and Helium Road.
October 2007HailSoncy-Reported near Hope Road and Interstate 40 about eight miles west of Amarillo.

Every storm recorded in Potter 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
Bishop Hills4.9 miles11
Cliffside5.3 miles11
Amarillo6.3 miles8
Bushland6.5 miles7
Pleasant Valley7.6 miles11
Dumas Junction7.6 miles8
Gentry7.9 miles11
Juilliard11.4 miles11

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 SoncyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076583The 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 1380572. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.