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Hilda Siding, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Schertz-Cibolo census division. The Survey maps it on the McQueeney quadrangle.

Hilda Siding within Guadalupe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

123 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Hilda Siding between 2005 and 2019, burning about 1,424 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined53
Debris and open burning31
Equipment and vehicle use23
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use9.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceALAMO CONCRETE FIRE
26 September 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCHWAB ROAD
16 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service6000 FM78
10 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH 10 WEST FIRE
7 August 2009Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1120 ALTWEIN
6 August 2009Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceW KLIEN
5 August 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceROLLING FORK
3 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guadalupe County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hilda Siding: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Balcones PitClayProducerSedimentary
FraserClayUnknown
Mcqueeney PitClayProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Guadalupe 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
McQueeney2.0 miles14
Nolte2.3 miles14
Muehlsville3.0 miles14
Morrison Falls3.1 miles14
Zipp3.5 miles14
Marion3.9 miles14
Schumannsville3.9 miles14
Camp Willow5.3 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q122595275The 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 1337769. 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.