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Sumer Hill, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Athens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75752. It stands on Drakes Branch. The Survey maps it on the Murchison West quadrangle. It stands 486 feet above sea level.

Sumer Hill within Henderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

189 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Sumer Hill between 1996 and 2019, burning about 1,459 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning130
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking7
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service0909171 CONTROL BURN OUT OF CONTROL
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service0907191 GRASS FIRE
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service906092
29 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service858
29 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 3800
28 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service858
27 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2311
26 September 2015Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1516

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henderson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Sumer Hill: 15 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Acme PitFire Clay (Refractory)ProducerSedimentary
Blackjack PitFire Clay (Refractory)ProducerSedimentary
Daniels PitFire Clay (Refractory)ProducerSedimentary
Mayfield PitFire Clay (Refractory)ProducerSedimentary
Van Zandt County PitFire Clay (Refractory)ProducerSedimentary
Yancy PitFire Clay (Refractory)ProducerSedimentary
Acme Brick Daniels PitClayProducer
Acme Brick Mayfield PitClayUnknown
Acme PitClayPast Producer
Athens Brick Van Zandt County PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Henderson 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
Bethel3.7 miles13
Murchison5.5 miles13
Big Rock6.6 miles13
Pickens7.9 miles13
Opelika8.2 miles13
Stockard8.3 miles13
Athens9.3 miles16
Eustace10.1 miles14

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 Sumer HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076593The 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 1890012. 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.