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Sumner, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Sumner census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75486. The Survey maps it on the Toco quadrangle. It stands 568 feet above sea level.

Sumner within Lamar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

179 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Sumner between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,642 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning112
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use23
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2

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 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 79 FIRE
7 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOPE5
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined70 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13019
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined42 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6293
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSAM MAGNESS
4 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS-P.HART
3 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDR TROUT FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sumner: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Ford Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lamar County

Storms near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sumner in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2016: 4 hail, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2002LightningSumner$75,000A lightning started fire burned down a house near Sumner.
May 2016HailSumner$50,000A trained spotter reported baseball sized hail near the town of Sumner.
May 2006HailSumner$35,000Baseball-size was hail reported nine miles northwest of Paris. Many windows were broken.
April 2004HailSumner-Occurred in the community of Emberson.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindSumner-Power lines were blown down near Sumner.
February 2005HailSumner-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lamar 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
Globe1.7 miles11
Emberson1.8 miles13
Hopewell3.4 miles11
Caviness3.4 miles14
Unity4.6 miles12
Maxey4.9 miles12
Toco6.1 miles11
Hinckley6.7 miles11

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 SumnerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7637947The 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 1369390. 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.