Hall, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Richland Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76871. It lies near Clements Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Hall quadrangle.

Hall within San Saba County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1894 USGS Brady quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1928 USGS Mercury quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Mercury quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Hall quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Brady quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

47 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Hall between 2005 and 2020, burning about 3,672 acres in total. 6 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
Debris and open burning	14
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Natural	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	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
6 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 September 2009	Natural	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	APPLETON
2 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	A D MCKINNERNEY
11 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
31 August 2010	Debris and open burning	150 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WILTON
29 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRASADA RANCH
28 August 2009	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	PITTMAN
27 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRASADA RANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Saba 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Richland Springs	5.8 miles	14
Holt	6.1 miles	14
Skeeterville	6.7 miles	14
Bowser	9.6 miles	15
Elm Grove	9.8 miles	15
Locker	10.4 miles	15
Algerita	11.2 miles	13
Sloan	11.4 miles	13

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 Hall	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q116980404	The 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 1379878. 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.