South Sulphur, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Commerce census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75428. It stands on Honey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wolfe City quadrangle.

South Sulphur within Hunt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1954 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Wolfe City quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS McKinney quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

152 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of South Sulphur between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,458 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined	69
Debris and open burning	43
Equipment and vehicle use	30
Natural	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	ROOSTER FIRE/CR 4510
6 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 2016	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HILLBILLY BRUSH PILE
4 September 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SOUTH SULPHUR
4 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 4505
30 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	HORSE PEN
3 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
29 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TURKEY CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hunt 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
Scatter Branch	2.8 miles	8
Aberfoyle	2.9 miles	6
Jacobia	3.9 miles	8
Fairlie	4.3 miles	8
Neylandville	4.5 miles	8
White Rock	5.8 miles	6
Commerce	6.0 miles	8
Durham	6.1 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1368776. 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.