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Gay Hill, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Gay Hill-Independence census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77833. The Survey maps it on the Gay Hill quadrangle. It stands 371 feet above sea level.

Gay Hill within Washington County

On record in Gay Hill

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

123 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Gay Hill between 1999 and 2020, burning about 547 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1

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
4 September 2011Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOVERLOOK PARK
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHEPARD MOUNTAIN RANCH FIRE
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHEPARD MOUTAIN
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLONGPOINT ROAD FIRE
29 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service201 FM 390 W
22 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service4021 OLD GAY HILL RD.
16 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service390 WEST
16 September 2013Fireworks2.2 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePHILLIPS LANE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

7 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gay Hill in 7 storm reports between 2004 and 2026: 3 funnel cloud, 2 hail, 2 flash 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 2026Funnel CloudGay Hill-Broadcast media shared a video of a funnel cloud moving into the Rocky Creek Park south of Sommerville Lake. The storm that produced this funnel had previously formed an EF-0 over in Lee County before lifting. There has been a report of very minor tree limb damage near the site of the funnel, but damage was so minor it may have been from nearby general thunderstorm winds.
October 2018Flash FloodGay Hill-Highway 390 east of Gay Hill was impassable due to high water.
August 2016Funnel CloudGay Hill-A funnel cloud was sighted near Somerville.
May 2015Funnel CloudGay Hill-A funnel cloud was reported near Lake Somerville.
April 2015HailGay Hill-Quarter sized hail was reported near Lake Somerville.
October 2015Flash FloodGay Hill-Flood waters were inundating the Rehburg Road and FM 1948 intersection.
November 2004HailGay Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Quarry2.6 miles10
Longpoint3.0 miles7
Rehburg3.8 miles10
Zionville4.8 miles10
Prairie Hill6.4 miles10
Berlin7.4 miles10
Union Hill7.9 miles7
Mill Creek8.0 miles10

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 Gay HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18151498The 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 1336452. 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.