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Hills Prairie, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cedar Creek-Red Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78602. It stands on Hills Prairie. The Survey maps it on the Bastrop quadrangle.

Hills Prairie within Bastrop County

On record in Hills Prairie

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

258 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 258 fires within 5 miles of Hills Prairie between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,192 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 15 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 burning107
Missing data/not specified/undetermined72
Equipment and vehicle use23
Natural17
Arson/incendiarism15
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking8
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWATTERSON
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1513 FAYETTE ST
7 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2008Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCALLISTER ROAD - 184
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1000 95 HWY N
27 September 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTRAL TX - 14

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bastrop County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hills Prairie in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2019: 1 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2016Flash FloodHills Prairie-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding sending six inches of water over Hwy 71 at Harmon Rd.
April 2019HailHills Prairie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bastrop 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
Clearview2.4 miles17
Upton3.1 miles17
Alum Creek4.1 miles17
Bastrop4.2 miles17
Shiloh (historical)5.6 miles15
Pine Hills6.3 miles16
Watterson6.7 miles11
KC Estates7.2 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1802956. 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.