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South Fork Estates, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the North Jim Hogg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78361. The Survey maps it on the Hebbronville quadrangle. 136 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 607 feet above sea level.

South Fork Estates within Jim Hogg County

Population over time

3 figures

South Fork Estates grew from 47 to 136 between 2000 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.

YearPeople Change
200047
201070+23 (+49%)
2020136+66 (+94%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 6 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

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of South Fork Estates between 2007 and 2017, burning about 1,725 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined250 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTATE 16 HWY./FM 649 RD.
16 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined500 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHEBBRONVILLE
10 March 2009Equipment and vehicle use675 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLOS OLMOS FIRE
22 December 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 January 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHEBBRONVILLE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jim Hogg 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
South Fork Colonia0.2 miles6
Hebbronville3.0 miles6
Las Lomitas B Colonia4.8 miles6
Las Lomitas5.5 miles6
Las Lomitas C Colonia6.1 miles6
Las Lomitas A Colonia6.3 miles6
Thompsonville13.2 miles9
Randado15.9 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.

Wikipedia article on South Fork EstatesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981560The 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 1852769. 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.