Sugar Valley, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Bay City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77480. It stands on Snead Slough. The Survey maps it on the Ashwood quadrangle.

Sugar Valley within Matagorda County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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
1952 USGS Ashwood quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Angleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

17 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Sugar Valley between 2011 and 2014, burning about 40 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
Debris and open burning	11
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
30 August 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	OLD VV RD-SP. OAKS
24 August 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	BATES FIRE-PWR POLE
28 July 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ROBLES REKINDLE
22 July 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	KRAUSKOPF BRUSH PILE
8 June 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	OAK CREEK 1 35
3 June 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	OVV RD HAYBALE
17 June 2014	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	VALARIS PWR POLE
9 May 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	ALLENHURST TRUF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Matagorda 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
Ashwood	3.3 miles	11
Allenhurst	3.7 miles	11
Van Vleck	4.1 miles	10
Caney	6.9 miles	7
Rugeley	7.1 miles	7
Bay City	8.8 miles	7
Pledger	9.0 miles	10
Cedar Lane	10.2 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1369320. 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.