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Sorrelle, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the East Bernard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77488. The Survey maps it on the Glen Flora quadrangle.

Sorrelle within Wharton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Sorrelle between 2008 and 2009, burning about 77 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning2

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
4 April 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 January 2009Debris and open burning75 acresTexas A & M Forest Service5900 FM 1161

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wharton 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
Glen Flora1.9 miles9
Wharton3.6 miles10
Dorman4.3 miles8
Mackay4.8 miles9
Dinsmore6.0 miles10
Hungerford6.0 miles8
Egypt6.1 miles8
Pierce7.2 miles8

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.

Wikidata item Q122562569The 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 1380574. 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.