Bald Hill, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Huntington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75901. It stands on One Eye Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bald Hill quadrangle.

Bald Hill within Angelina County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1932 USGS Manning quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Bald Hill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

136 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Bald Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,360 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 15 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	78
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Arson/incendiarism	15
Natural	10
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	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
9 September 1994	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
7 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	320 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
7 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 September 2005	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 194
4 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 655
29 September 1993	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
28 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ANGELINA 14:12
25 September 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SCOTT MOOREHEAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Angelina 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
Homer	3.4 miles	14
Beulah	3.9 miles	13
Huntington	4.5 miles	14
Prairie Grove	6.3 miles	13
Rocky Springs	6.4 miles	14
Burke	6.6 miles	11
Shawnee Prairie	6.8 miles	15
Shady Grove	6.9 miles	11

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 Bald Hill	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q110443097	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 1379384. 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.