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Hedwigs Hill, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It lies in ZIP code area 76856. It stands on Beaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Art quadrangle. It stands 1,286 feet above sea level.

Hedwigs Hill within Mason County

On record in Hedwigs 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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

31 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Hedwigs Hill between 2005 and 2017, burning about 1,282 acres in total. 5 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
30 September 2017Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRR 152/LKOTHMANN
29 September 2011Natural7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceZESCH FIRE
7 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUS87S/KELLER VELINO RD
3 August 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service87S/1636 KETTNER-WILLMANN RD/DKEENER
28 August 2009Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8000 SIMONSVILLE RD/G. MARTIN
23 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRR1723/SIMONSVILLE RD/TWO SISTERS RD
16 August 2017Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSH29E/LOWER WILLOW CREEK RD/WJORDAN
12 August 2009Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRR152/BILLYBODE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hedwigs Hill: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Copper. 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
Bauer ProspectCopperOccurrence
Mason County QuarryGraniteProducer

Every working recorded in Mason County

Storms near this place

13 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hedwigs Hill in 13 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 7 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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
June 2009Tornado (EF1)Hedwigs Hill$80,000National Weather Service Storm Survey Team found evidence of an EF1 track located about 9 miles southeast of Mason. The tornado damaged or uprooted numerous large oak trees and pushed a manufactured home off of its foundation. The tornado destroyed the porch, an outbuilding, and a roof of a nearby home.
April 2007HailHedwigs Hill$8,000The large hail broke residential windows and a truck windshield.
April 2023HailHedwigs Hill-The report was from mping.
July 2021FloodHedwigs Hill-The public reported flooding on Ranch Road 783 just south of US 87.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindHedwigs Hill-An area of damaging thunderstorm winds about 1.5 miles wide uprooted several trees and broke many large tree limbs. The high winds also knocked over a windmill and took roofs of some hunting cabins. Special thanks to Mason County Emergency Management and a rancher who provided details of this wind damage.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindHedwigs Hill-A member of the public reported large tree branches blown down in Hilda.
October 2018Flash FloodHedwigs Hill-The Mason County Sheriff's office reported Beaver Creek flowing onto a road near U.S. Highway 87, 10 miles southeast of Mason. U.S. Highway 87 south of Mason was closed. In addition, Texas Highway 71 in northeastern Mason County was closed due to flooding.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindHedwigs Hill-A National Weather Service Cooperative Observer reported large tree limbs down.
May 2013HailHedwigs Hill-A National Weather Service Cooperative Observer reported golf ball to billiard size hail.
May 2011HailHedwigs Hill-Golf ball size hail was reported 11 miles south of Mason. The sheriffs office reported that a vehicle lost control due to the hail. No injuries were reported.
March 2009HailHedwigs Hill-Quarter to golfball size hail covered U.S. Highway 87.
April 2014HailHedwigs Hill-no account filed
May 2013HailHedwigs Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mason 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
Grossville4.9 miles13
Art5.0 miles13
Hilda5.4 miles13
Loyal Valley8.3 miles13
Mason8.5 miles13
Koockville9.7 miles12
Grit13.7 miles12
Streeter15.6 miles13

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 Hedwigs HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5697770The 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 1379918. 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.