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Chalk Hill, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Tatum census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75652. It stands on Lee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elderville quadrangle.

Chalk Hill within Rusk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 16 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

577 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 577 fires within 5 miles of Chalk Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,004 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 34 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 burning345
Missing data/not specified/undetermined120
Arson/incendiarism34
Equipment and vehicle use24
Power generation/transmission/distribution17
Natural14
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony3

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
9 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 1993Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000257
6 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000245
6 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000256
6 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 480
5 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service15-0000172
5 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk County

Storms near this place

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chalk Hill in 12 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 1994Thunderstorm WindChalk Hill$5,000Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
June 2024Flash FloodChalk Hill-County Road 2164 near Lake Cherokee flooded and closed.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindChalk Hill-Trees downed across Rusk County and one tree downed on a power line near County Road 2164.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindChalk Hill-Numerous trees downed in the Lake Cherokee area off of Farm to Market Road 1716.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindChalk Hill-A tree was blown down on FM 782.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindChalk Hill-Trees were downed near FM. 1716 near Chalk Hill.
April 2012HailChalk Hill-A convenience store near Chalk Hill reported nickel to quarter sized hail.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindChalk Hill-Numerous trees down between Hwy 322 and FM 1716.
May 1994HailChalk Hill-One and one-half inch diameter hail was reported at the Longview Weather Service Meteorolgical Office (WSMO).
February 1993Thunderstorm WindChalk Hill-Trees were blown down by thunderstorm wind.
May 1996HailChalk Hill-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindChalk Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rusk 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
Mayflower2.9 miles16
Stewart3.8 miles16
Easton4.3 miles15
Monroe4.7 miles16
Oak Hill5.9 miles16
New Hope6.4 miles15
Dirgin7.4 miles16
Tatum7.6 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379527. 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.