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Hill City, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Granbury West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76476. The Survey maps it on the Hill City quadrangle.

Hill City within Hood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 18 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

86 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Hill City between 2004 and 2020, burning about 1,773 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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 burning30
Equipment and vehicle use25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
2 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILD CAT KNOB
19 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHILL CITY
19 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSPRESTER
14 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePALUXY
9 August 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHILL CITY
3 August 2005Debris and open burning700 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 August 2019Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSHY
10 August 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNERI

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hood County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hill City: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Fort Worth Crushed Stone Quarry 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hood County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hill City in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2024Thunderstorm WindHill City$500A microburst knocked down and split trees south and southwest of Tolar. A barn and storage container were also damaged.

Every storm recorded in Hood 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
Paluxy4.0 miles17
Neri5.5 miles18
Brushy5.5 miles19
Tolar6.8 miles18
Mambrino7.2 miles19
Granbury9.7 miles19
Pecan Plantation9.7 miles19
Fort Spunky10.9 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378453. 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.