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Hull, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Daisetta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77564. The Survey maps it on the Hardin quadrangle. It stands 69 feet above sea level.

Hull within Liberty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Hull between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,521 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 14 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 burning23
Arson/incendiarism14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 697
6 September 2000Arson/incendiarism30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 665
17 September 2013Fireworks3.1 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8075
15 September 1999Arson/incendiarism43 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2019Natural74 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHARDIN 18:45
1 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service8062
6 August 1993Debris and open burning70 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 August 1999Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty 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 Hull: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Halite. 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
Hull Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1908

Every working recorded in Liberty County

Storms near this place

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hull in 1 storm report in 2001: 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
January 2001Thunderstorm WindHull$20,000Trees down on power lines in Hull.

Every storm recorded in Liberty 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
Pedeco1.5 miles13
Daisetta2.3 miles13
Dowdel Settlement3.7 miles13
Frige Settlement4.6 miles13
Hardin5.1 miles13
Woodson5.4 miles13
Tanner Settlement5.4 miles13
Rock Island6.2 miles13

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 HullAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q970714The 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 1338273. 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.