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Sun Valley, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Paris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75462. The Survey maps it on the Blossom quadrangle. 70 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 535 feet above sea level.

Sun Valley within Lamar County

Population over time

3 figures

Sun Valley grew from 51 to 70 between 2000 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
200051
201069+18 (+35%)
202070+1 (+1%)

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

184 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Sun Valley between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,469 acres in total. 3 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 burning125
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use14
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
8 September 2009Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1700 FM 2120
6 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 42600
29 September 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDLAND/GRASS FIRE
27 September 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDLAND/GRASS FIRE
22 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDLAND/GRASS FIRE
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service4200 CLARKSVILLE
18 September 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMADEWELL RD
10 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service4120 SMALLWOOD RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Sylvan1.4 miles8
Reno1.8 miles8
Blossom2.3 miles8
Adams4.2 miles8
Givens4.5 miles11
Marvin4.9 miles8
Byrdtown4.9 miles8
Faught5.0 miles8

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 Sun ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969103The 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 1388548. 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.