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Southmayd, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Northwest Grayson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76268. The Survey maps it on the Sadler quadrangle. 978 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 735 feet above sea level.

Southmayd within Grayson County

Population over time

2 figures

Southmayd fell from 992 to 978 between 2010 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
2010992
2020978-14 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

93 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Southmayd between 1998 and 2020, burning about 4,198 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined34
Debris and open burning28
Equipment and vehicle use14
Arson/incendiarism10
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Smoking1

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 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTHMAYD RD
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePRESTON MEADOWS COMMAND
5 September 2011Arson/incendiarism20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNAYLOR
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRAVEN
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNAYLOR
3 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGIBBONS
17 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTHMAYD RD
9 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceW WASHINGTON GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson County

Storms near this place

16 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Southmayd in 16 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 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
March 2025Thunderstorm WindSouthmayd$200,000Emergency management reported that partial siding was removed from multiple homes along with partial loss of roof decking in the town of Southmayd. One RV was overturned and sheet metal was also removed from car ports.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindSouthmayd$25,000Roof damage occurred to an elementary school.
June 2004LightningSouthmayd$25,000Lightning set two oil storage tanks on fire.
September 2018Flash FloodSouthmayd$10,000Emergency management reported a vehicle swept off Dagnan Road by flash flood waters.
May 2024HailSouthmayd$5,000Report from mPING: Golf Ball (1.75 in.).
May 2011Thunderstorm WindSouthmayd$2,000Large trees and tree limbs were knocked down in Southmayd.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindSouthmayd$1,000Emergency management reported power lines down on Highway 56 in Southmayd.
May 2024HailSouthmayd-A trained spotter reported quarter-sized hail near Southmayd.
April 2023HailSouthmayd-Emergency management reported quarter sized hail in Southmayd.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindSouthmayd-Emergency management reported a 67 MPH wind gust on Highway 289 just west of Sherman.
March 2023HailSouthmayd-A trained spotter reported half dollar size hail west of Sherman.
March 2022HailSouthmayd-A public report indicated quarter sized hail in Southmayd, TX.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindSouthmayd-Trees blown down, with some snapped in half and stripped of their bark. Relayed by media.
May 2024HailSouthmayd-no account filed
June 2023HailSouthmayd-no account filed
April 2001HailSouthmayd-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grayson 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
Thorne1.0 miles12
Mayd3.0 miles12
Gage3.1 miles12
Steedham4.7 miles12
Macomb5.1 miles12
Sadler5.5 miles12
Hanger5.6 miles12
Mormon Grove (historical)6.0 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 SouthmaydAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977330The 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 1368840. 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.

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.