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Church Hill, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Jacksonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75766. It stands on East Gum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonville West quadrangle. It stands 515 feet above sea level.

Church Hill within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

445 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 445 fires within 5 miles of Church Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,217 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 18 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 burning260
Missing data/not specified/undetermined83
Equipment and vehicle use24
Arson/incendiarism18
Power generation/transmission/distribution17
Smoking13
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks2
Other causes2

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 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 7127
9 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 475
5 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2013Fireworks1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7108

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Church Hill: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mount HavenIronProducer

Every working recorded in Cherokee 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
Lake View1.3 miles10
Cove Springs1.9 miles14
Mountain Heaven2.1 miles10
Pomona2.7 miles14
Hume3.1 miles10
Jacksonville3.2 miles10
Corine4.1 miles10
Reese4.4 miles15

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 Church HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076434The 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 2573491. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.