Weir, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the North Hopkins-Sulphur Bluff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75482. The Survey maps it on the Tira quadrangle.

Weir 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.

1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Tira quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

20 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Weir between 2003 and 2019, burning about 308 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Debris and open burning	9
Arson/incendiarism	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
2 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2016112
2 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	7/2/14 TX SH 154 GRASS FIRE
19 June 2006	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
19 June 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
9 April 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
11 April 2018	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HOPKINS 15:57
18 March 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HOPKINS 15:25
8 February 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CHERRY GROVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Weir: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Birth Right Sulfur Plant	Sulfur	Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Addran	1.2 miles	9
Tira	1.5 miles	9
Oak Grove	1.6 miles	9
New Birthright	2.3 miles	9
Birthright	2.5 miles	9
Sandhill	2.8 miles	9
North Hopkins	3.0 miles	9
Harpers Crossing (historical)	3.3 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380752. 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.