Brown Hill, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Waelder census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78959. The Survey maps it on the Jeddo quadrangle.

Brown Hill within Gonzales County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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.

1901 USGS Flatonia quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Jeddo quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Brown Hill between 1994 and 2018, burning about 540 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONTROL BURN OUT OF CONTROL
18 August 2011	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	4D RANCH FIRE
14 August 2014	Natural	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOLF RUN FIRE
29 July 1997	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
24 July 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	DOWN LINES
24 July 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	OUT OF CONTROL CONTROL BURN
20 July 1994	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
14 June 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LATE NITE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Sample

Every fire recorded in Gonzales 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
Waelder	5.3 miles	11
Thompsonville	5.8 miles	11
Sandy Fork	7.9 miles	11
Newtonville	10.3 miles	11
Saturn	11.6 miles	11
Hickston	11.7 miles	11
Harwood	12.4 miles	16
Comanche Crossing	13.7 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378054. 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.