Liberty Hill, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Thorndale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76567. It stands on Rocky Creek. The Survey maps it on the San Gabriel quadrangle.

Liberty Hill within Milam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1885 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000
1887 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1963 USGS San Gabriel quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

80 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Liberty Hill between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,024 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning	28
Equipment and vehicle use	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	4
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
4 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE W HWY 79
29 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
25 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE N FM 908
21 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	COTTON BALE ON FIRE
14 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
13 September 2015	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
9 August 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE AT UNION HALL
30 August 2015	Natural	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Milam 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
San Gabriel	3.1 miles	14
Handy	3.9 miles	15
Detmold	4.1 miles	14
Marjorie	4.3 miles	15
The Crossroads	5.1 miles	14
Thorndale	5.3 miles	14
Tracy	5.3 miles	15
Sharp	5.4 miles	17

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 Liberty Hill	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122929269	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 1380084. 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.