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Thermo, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It lies in ZIP code area 75482. The Survey maps it on the Sulphur Springs SE quadrangle.

Thermo within Hopkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

31 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Thermo between 2000 and 2020, burning about 556 acres in total. None 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 burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
27 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
31 August 2005Debris and open burning85 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 326
11 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOPKINS 15:28
24 June 2018Debris and open burning40 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6242018
3 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 March 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 March 2007Debris and open burning43 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 77
2 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Thermo: 3 producers, 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay. 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
Sulphur Springs PlantClayProducer
A D Green Refractories Pit BFire Clay (Refractory)Unknown
A P Green Refractories Pit AFire Clay (Refractory)Unknown
A P Green Refractories Pit CFire Clay (Refractory)Unknown
Sulphur Springs Brick CoFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unnamed PitFire Clay (Refractory)ProducerSedimentary
Unnamed PitsFire Clay (Refractory)ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Hopkins County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thermo in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2014: 2 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
June 2014Thunderstorm WindThermo$10,000Thunderstorms winds blew a tree onto a house and also took the roof off a metal barn.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindThermo-Trees were blown down north of Como.

Every storm recorded in Hopkins 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
Brinker2.1 miles9
Martin Springs2.8 miles9
Como3.7 miles8
East Caney3.7 miles9
White Oak Junction4.4 miles9
Greenpond4.7 miles9
Sulphur Springs5.1 miles8
Bethel5.9 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379154. 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.