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.
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
- Abraham Wiley Hill Houselisted 1971
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1885 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:125000
- 1904 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1982 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Austin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
258 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 107 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 72 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 23 |
| Natural | 17 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WATTERSON |
| 7 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1513 FAYETTE ST |
| 7 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MCALLISTER ROAD - 184 |
| 5 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1000 95 HWY N |
| 27 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CENTRAL TX - 14 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2016Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2016 | Flash Flood | Hills Prairie | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding sending six inches of water over Hwy 71 at Harmon Rd. |
| April 2019 | Hail | Hills Prairie | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clearview | 2.4 miles | 17 | |
| Upton | 3.1 miles | 17 | |
| Alum Creek | 4.1 miles | 17 | |
| Bastrop | 4.2 miles | 17 | |
| Shiloh (historical) | 5.6 miles | 15 | |
| Pine Hills | 6.3 miles | 16 | |
| Watterson | 6.7 miles | 11 | |
| KC Estates | 7.2 miles | 17 |
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.







