Sulphur, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Apple Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75865. It stands on Sulphur Creek. The Survey maps it on the Trevat quadrangle. It stands 239 feet above sea level.

Sulphur within Trinity County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Trevat quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
2004 USGS Trevat quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Sulphur between 1992 and 2019, burning about 20,651 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
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
23 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7117
23 September 1994	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 September 1992	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
17 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7108
12 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 895
11 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	8068
8 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 687
6 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 33

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trinity 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
Woodlake	3.6 miles	11
Sumpter (historical)	4.3 miles	11
Trevat	4.5 miles	12
Josserand	6.2 miles	11
Lacy	6.7 miles	11
Groveton	7.9 miles	11
Helmic	8.4 miles	10
Centerville	9.1 miles	10

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	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7636506	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 1380624. 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.