Cedar Hill, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lockney census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79241. The Survey maps it on the Wilson Creek quadrangle.

Cedar Hill within Floyd 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 Plainview quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Plainview quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Wilson Creek quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Plainview quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

20 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Hill between 2006 and 2017, burning about 2,631 acres in total. 11 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
Natural	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	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
25 September 2012	Natural	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
13 September 2016	Natural	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
4 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
28 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	88 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
26 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
25 August 2015	Natural	65 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
25 August 2015	Natural	160 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SOUTH PLAINS GRASS FIRE
7 July 2016	Natural	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar Hill in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 3 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1995	Hail	Cedar Hill	-	no account filed
June 1995	Hail	Cedar Hill	-	no account filed
April 1994	Hail	Cedar Hill	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Floyd 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
Johnfarris	5.3 miles	7
South Plains	7.9 miles	7
Fairmont	10.8 miles	7
Muncy	11.3 miles	7
Sterley	11.3 miles	7
Gray Mule	11.6 miles	7
Boothe	11.6 miles	7
Lockney	12.6 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379519. 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.

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.