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Flint Hill, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Palestine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75801. It stands on White Oak Creek. The Survey maps it on the Neches quadrangle.

Flint Hill within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

181 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of Flint Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,636 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 11 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 burning69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined60
Natural13
Arson/incendiarism11
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking1
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2019Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE
8 September 2006Arson/incendiarism10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 528
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 529
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE
7 September 2011Natural82 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 519
7 September 1996Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service9/6/2010

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson 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 Flint Hill: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Aluminum, Contained or Metal. 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
(Facility) Aluminum Co of America SmelterAluminum, Contained or MetalPlant

Every working recorded in Anderson 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
Rocky Point1.3 miles11
Neches2.1 miles11
Todd City5.1 miles10
Mound Prairie5.6 miles13
Wells Creek5.7 miles13
Jarvis6.3 miles11
Pert6.8 miles13
Herring6.9 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q31700412The 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 1889579. 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.