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Chapel Hill, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Tyler East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75707. The Survey maps it on the Bascom quadrangle.

Chapel Hill within Smith County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

381 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 381 fires within 5 miles of Chapel Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,722 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 27 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 burning223
Missing data/not specified/undetermined77
Arson/incendiarism27
Equipment and vehicle use19
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural6
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor5

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 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 September 2019Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSMITH 10:35
8 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6301
8 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use111 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKERR MCGEE FIRE
8 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
7 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
7 September 2003Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 162

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Smith County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chapel Hill in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 1994Thunderstorm WindChapel Hill$5,000Numerous trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Smith 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
New Chapel Hill1.1 miles16
Bascom1.6 miles16
Elberta3.2 miles16
Whitehouse6.1 miles16
Tyler6.4 miles16
Copeland6.5 miles14
Bostick6.8 miles15
Douglas7.1 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1332654. 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.