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.
Population over time
3 figuresHilltop 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 300 | |
| 2010 | 287 | -13 (-4%) |
| 2020 | 356 | +69 (+24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 9 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.
- 1942 USGS Dilley quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Dilley quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 2002 USGS Dilley quadrangle1:50000
Fires near this place
344 since 2005Regional 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/undetermined | 234 |
| Debris and open burning | 57 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 31 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 14 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 342 E. SALINAS |
| 8 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 117 W. 1 MI. SOUTH OF HWY 85 |
| 7 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 88 NORTHBOUND |
| 4 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 87 1/2 SOUTHBOUND |
| 4 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 89 SOUTHBOUND |
| 3 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hilltop Colonia | 0.0 miles | 9 | |
| Dilley | 1.8 miles | 9 | |
| Derby Colonia | 5.9 miles | 11 | |
| Derby | 6.0 miles | 11 | |
| Divot | 6.5 miles | 9 | |
| Parks Corner Windmill | 8.7 miles | 9 | |
| Melon | 10.7 miles | 10 | |
| Las Flores | 12.4 miles | 8 |
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 Hilltop | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982099 | The 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.







