BlockForest Hill, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Sumner census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75446. It stands on Middle Fork Bergher Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tigertown quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1903 USGS Paris quadrangle1:125000
- 1947 USGS Honey Grove quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Honey Grove quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Tigertown quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
39 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Forest Hill between 2005 and 2020, burning about 845 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 9/2/15 GRASS FIRE |
| 5 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 99 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 553 |
| 29 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 82 IN LAMAR CO |
| 27 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 15 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MONROE BRUSH FIRE |
| 13 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DOBBS FIRE |
| 12 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 6186 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034664. 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.