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Hilltop, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Dilley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78017. The Survey maps it on the Dilley quadrangle. 356 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 522 feet above sea level.

Hilltop within Frio County

Population over time

3 figures

Hilltop grew from 300 to 356 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000300
2010287-13 (-4%)
2020356+69 (+24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 9 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

344 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 344 fires within 5 miles of Hilltop between 2005 and 2018, burning about 1,734 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined234
Debris and open burning57
Equipment and vehicle use31
Power generation/transmission/distribution14
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service342 E. SALINAS
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 117 W. 1 MI. SOUTH OF HWY 85
7 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service88 NORTHBOUND
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service87 1/2 SOUTHBOUND
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service89 SOUTHBOUND
3 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Frio 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
Hilltop Colonia0.0 miles9
Dilley1.8 miles9
Derby Colonia5.9 miles11
Derby6.0 miles11
Divot6.5 miles9
Parks Corner Windmill8.7 miles9
Melon10.7 miles10
Las Flores12.4 miles8

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.

Wikipedia article on HilltopAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982099The 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 1852711. 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.