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Hickory Hill, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Pittsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75686. It stands on Middle Lilly Creek. The Survey maps it on the Leesburg quadrangle.

Hickory Hill within Camp County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

411 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 411 fires within 5 miles of Hickory Hill between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,386 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 25 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 burning258
Missing data/not specified/undetermined59
Arson/incendiarism25
Equipment and vehicle use21
Natural16
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Smoking7
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony1
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
9 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service3318
8 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1342
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2632
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE FM 2455
7 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 6228
6 September 2014Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1336
6 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1264
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service271 SOUTH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Camp 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
Crossroads2.7 miles12
Pine2.8 miles12
Matinburg2.9 miles12
Pittsburg4.8 miles12
Leesburg5.2 miles12
Rocky Mound5.7 miles8
Pecan Heights5.9 miles8
Newsome7.3 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378445. 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.