High Hill, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Schulenburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78956. The Survey maps it on the Schulenburg quadrangle.

High Hill within Fayette County

On record in High 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

Nativity of Mary, Blessed Virgin Catholic Churchlisted 1983

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1919 USGS Schulenburg quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Schulenburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Eagle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

47 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of High Hill between 1998 and 2013, burning about 266 acres in total. None 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	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	3

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
23 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
16 September 2008	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
15 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
13 September 2008	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
11 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
1 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HIGH HILL
30 August 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
30 August 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette 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
Schulenburg	2.8 miles	10
Freyburg	3.4 miles	10
Swiss Alp	4.5 miles	10
Dubina	5.0 miles	10
Engle	5.0 miles	11
Ammannsville	6.1 miles	10
Saint John	6.1 miles	10
O'Quinn	7.6 miles	10

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 High Hill	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5755640	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 1337702. 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.