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.
Population over time
3 figuresSun 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 51 | |
| 2010 | 69 | +18 (+35%) |
| 2020 | 70 | +1 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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 Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Blossom quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
184 since 2005Regional 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 burning | 125 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1700 FM 2120 |
| 6 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 42600 |
| 29 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WILDLAND/GRASS FIRE |
| 27 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WILDLAND/GRASS FIRE |
| 22 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WILDLAND/GRASS FIRE |
| 2 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 4200 CLARKSVILLE |
| 18 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MADEWELL RD |
| 10 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 4120 SMALLWOOD RD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Valley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q969103 | 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 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.




