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.
Population over time
2 figuresSouthmayd 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 992 | |
| 2020 | 978 | -14 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1901 USGS Denison quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Whitesboro quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1982 USGS Sadler quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
93 since 1998Regional 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/undetermined | 34 |
| Debris and open burning | 28 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTHMAYD RD |
| 6 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PRESTON MEADOWS COMMAND |
| 5 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | NAYLOR |
| 5 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | RAVEN |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | NAYLOR |
| 3 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GIBBONS |
| 17 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTHMAYD RD |
| 9 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | W WASHINGTON GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 2001Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Southmayd | $200,000 | Emergency 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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Southmayd | $25,000 | Roof damage occurred to an elementary school. |
| June 2004 | Lightning | Southmayd | $25,000 | Lightning set two oil storage tanks on fire. |
| September 2018 | Flash Flood | Southmayd | $10,000 | Emergency management reported a vehicle swept off Dagnan Road by flash flood waters. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Southmayd | $5,000 | Report from mPING: Golf Ball (1.75 in.). |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Southmayd | $2,000 | Large trees and tree limbs were knocked down in Southmayd. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Southmayd | $1,000 | Emergency management reported power lines down on Highway 56 in Southmayd. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Southmayd | - | A trained spotter reported quarter-sized hail near Southmayd. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Southmayd | - | Emergency management reported quarter sized hail in Southmayd. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Southmayd | - | Emergency management reported a 67 MPH wind gust on Highway 289 just west of Sherman. |
| March 2023 | Hail | Southmayd | - | A trained spotter reported half dollar size hail west of Sherman. |
| March 2022 | Hail | Southmayd | - | A public report indicated quarter sized hail in Southmayd, TX. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Southmayd | - | Trees blown down, with some snapped in half and stripped of their bark. Relayed by media. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Southmayd | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Southmayd | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Southmayd | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Southmayd | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q977330 | The 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.





