Highland, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Dublin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76446. It stands on Sand Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lingleville quadrangle.

Highland within Erath County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1890 USGS Stephenville quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1920 USGS Stephenville quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Lingleville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Stephenville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

117 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Highland between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,891 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50
Debris and open burning	36
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Power generation/transmission/distribution	13
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	1
Other causes	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
7 September 2017	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	6971 HWY 6
28 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
26 September 2019	Railroad operations and maintenance	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	OLHAM
26 September 2019	Railroad operations and maintenance	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	OLAM PEANUT MILL FIRE
20 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 2156 KEITH
2 September 2018	Other causes	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BLACK
12 September 2017	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 358 GRASS FIRE
12 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erath County

Storms near this place

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Highland in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 1999	Hail	Highland	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Erath 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
Victor	4.4 miles	13
Bunyan	4.4 miles	12
Lingleville	7.2 miles	13
Dublin	7.3 miles	12
Cottonwood	9.4 miles	12
Harbin	9.5 miles	12
Shiloh	11.4 miles	12
Stephenville	13.7 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378450. 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.