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Cockrell Hill, Texas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Southwest Dallas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75211. It lies near Chalk Hill. The Survey maps it on the Duncanville quadrangle. 3,815 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 640 feet above sea level.

Cockrell Hill within Dallas County

Population over time

2 figures

Cockrell Hill fell from 4,193 to 3,815 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20104,193
20203,815-378 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 21 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

244 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 244 fires within 5 miles of Cockrell Hill between 2011 and 2017, burning about 74 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined197
Equipment and vehicle use18
Debris and open burning11
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePERRYTON
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTARETTA
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service6001-6099 MARVIN D LOVE
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceDUNCANVILLE RD
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRINIDAD
4 September 2015Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceALTOONA
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceDUMANE
30 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD GLORY DR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Cockrell Hill: 6 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Dallas QuarryLimestone, General, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary
Dallas Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, GeneralProducer
General Portland Clay PitClayProducer
Eagle-Ford Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
General Portland Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Texas Ind Inc Dallas LightweightStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this place

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cockrell Hill in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 8 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
April 2021HailCockrell Hill$150,000no account filed
May 2024HailCockrell Hill$100,000no account filed
April 1995Thunderstorm WindCockrell Hill$12,000A house was damaged and power lines were blown down at Fort Worth Avenue.
May 2010HailCockrell Hill$10,000Golfball sized hail was reported at Bishop Dunne High School in Cockrell Hill.
October 2015Flash FloodCockrell Hill$2,000Multiple roads were affected by high water including: Preton Rd./Mimosa Ln., Hillcrest Rd./Royal Ln., Shorecrest Dr./Lemmon Ave., NW Hwy/Goforth Rd., Cedar Crest Blvd./E. Kiest Blvd., I-35/W. Illinois Ave., 2900 Mountain Creek Pkwy near W. Kiest Blvd., and 4300 W. Kiest Blvd. near S. Cockrell Hill Rd.
April 2026HailCockrell Hill-Emergency manager reported 1.5 inch hail south of Cockrell Hill.
April 2017FloodCockrell Hill-A media report indicated high water in Kiest Blvd near the intersection of Westmoreland Dr in southwest Dallas, with at least one stalled vehicle.
May 2015Flash FloodCockrell Hill-A social media report indicated that Cockrell Hill Rd at Illinois Ave was shut down due to high water.
May 2024HailCockrell Hill-no account filed
April 2021HailCockrell Hill-no account filed
April 2021HailCockrell Hill-no account filed
April 2021HailCockrell Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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
Arcadia Park1.6 miles21
Kenwood1.9 miles21
Westwood Park2.4 miles21
Cole3.0 miles21
Eagle Ford3.4 miles24
Ledbetter Hills3.7 miles21
Oak Cliff4.0 miles20
Red Bird Addition5.0 miles21

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 Cockrell HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q966419The 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 1333053. 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.

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.