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Sulphur Springs, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Sulphur Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75482. The Survey maps it on the Sulphur Springs quadrangle. 15,941 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 502 feet above sea level.

Sulphur Springs within Hopkins County

On record in Sulphur Springs

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Sulphur Springs grew from 15,449 to 15,941 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
201015,449
202015,941+492 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

43 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Sulphur Springs between 2006 and 2018, burning about 428 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 September 2012Debris and open burning31 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN-6231
5 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 6221
5 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIVERY
16 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use40 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6328
7 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4762
29 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service118 E/B
22 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCLAYTON HOMES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sulphur Springs: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Sulphur Springs Brick CoFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Hopkins County

Storms near this place

22 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sulphur Springs in 22 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 14 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 tornado. 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
February 1993Thunderstorm WindSulphur Springs$50,000Wind gusts estimated at 85 mph blew down signs in Sulphur Springs and did structural damage to a barn just north of town.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindSulphur Springs$40,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down, a metal roof was blown off a building, a feed store was destroyed, and signs were blown down by high winds.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindSulphur Springs$5,000Trees were uprooted by high winds, and a calf barn was destroyed.
November 1994Thunderstorm WindSulphur Springs$5,000Trees were blown down by high winds.
November 1994Thunderstorm WindSulphur Springs$5,000Trees were blown down by high winds.
October 1993Thunderstorm WindSulphur Springs$5,000Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds east of Sulphur Springs.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindSulphur Springs$1,000Several sheds were blown down and trees were blown across the road.
April 1995HailSulphur Springs-A tornado was reported over Lake Sulphur Springs on the north side of Sulphur Springs.
April 1995Tornado (F0)Sulphur Springs-A tornado was reported over Lake Sulphur Springs on the north side of Sulphur Springs.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindSulphur Springs-Trees were blown down by high winds.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindSulphur Springs-Trees were blown down by high winds.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindSulphur Springs-Trees were blown down by high winds.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindSulphur Springs-Large tree limbs were blown down by high winds.
November 1994HailSulphur Springs-Trees were blown down by high winds.
April 1995HailSulphur Springs-no account filed
April 1995HailSulphur Springs-no account filed
April 1995HailSulphur Springs-no account filed
April 1995HailSulphur Springs-no account filed
April 1995Thunderstorm WindSulphur Springs-no account filed
May 1994Thunderstorm WindSulphur Springs-no account filed
May 1994Thunderstorm WindSulphur Springs-no account filed
April 1993HailSulphur Springs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hopkins 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
Rockdale2.6 miles8
Martin Springs4.0 miles9
Good Neighbor4.7 miles8
Thermo5.1 miles9
Gafford5.3 miles8
Pleasant Grove5.5 miles8
Tazewell5.7 miles9
Brinker5.8 miles9

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 Sulphur SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978175The 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 1348056. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.