Sunrise, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Marlin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76661. The Survey maps it on the McClanahan quadrangle.

Sunrise within Falls County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS McClanahan quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Marlin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

38 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Sunrise between 2005 and 2020, burning about 421 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Arson/incendiarism	1
Natural	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
7 August 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	ROBERTS FIRE
30 August 2009	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BUZZARD IN POWER LINES
29 August 2009	Natural	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DREWS HAY FIRE
16 August 2009	Power generation/transmission/distribution	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	AUCTION BARN FIRE
11 August 2009	Smoking	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RANDAZZO FIRE
1 August 2008	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
1 August 2008	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	704201602

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Falls 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
Marlin	2.7 miles	8
Reagan	6.1 miles	7
Tomlinson Hill	6.1 miles	8
Triangle	6.2 miles	8
McClanahan	6.3 miles	7
Rocky Hill	6.6 miles	8
Coymack	6.6 miles	7
Cedar Springs	7.0 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034832. 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.