South Dayton, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Liberty-Dayton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77535. The Survey maps it on the Moss Bluff quadrangle.

South Dayton within Liberty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Moss Bluff quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Anahuac quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Moss Bluff quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of South Dayton between 2000 and 2018, burning about 111 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
2 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 826
20 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 309
12 July 2011	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TRASH DUMP FIRE
1 June 2011	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODS FIRE
11 February 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODS AND BRUSH FIRE
5 December 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LIBERTY 14:19

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty 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 South Dayton: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	South Liberty Occurrence	Sulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure, Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence	1905

Every working recorded in Liberty 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Stilson	3.2 miles	13
Dayton	3.6 miles	13
Esperson	4.0 miles	10
Timber Lake Estates	4.3 miles	11
Wadley	4.4 miles	13
Negros Liberty Settlement (historical)	4.4 miles	13
South Liberty	4.5 miles	13
Ladd	4.5 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1384188. 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.