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Indian Hills, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Burkeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75977. It stands on Deer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Weeks Settlement quadrangle.

Indian Hills within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Indian Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,481 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 33 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
Arson/incendiarism33
Debris and open burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1995Debris and open burning26 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 1993Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service889-E-16
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarism25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarism40 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton 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
Mattox2.4 miles9
Wiergate3.6 miles9
Farrsville4.3 miles9
Mayflower4.5 miles14
Shankleville5.1 miles9
Burkeville5.4 miles9
Weeks Settlement5.5 miles9
Liberty7.8 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379986. 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.