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New Chapel Hill, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Tyler East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75707. The Survey maps it on the Bascom quadrangle. 620 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 430 feet above sea level.

New Chapel Hill within Smith County

Population over time

3 figures

New Chapel Hill grew from 553 to 620 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
2000553
2010594+41 (+7%)
2020620+26 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

366 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 366 fires within 5 miles of New Chapel Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,957 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 29 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 burning215
Missing data/not specified/undetermined74
Arson/incendiarism29
Equipment and vehicle use19
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3

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 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6301
8 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use111 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKERR MCGEE FIRE
8 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service342
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
7 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
7 September 2003Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 162
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresTexas A & M Forest Service20864 CR 26 FIRE
6 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Smith 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
Chapel Hill1.1 miles16
Bascom2.7 miles16
Elberta4.0 miles16
Whitehouse6.1 miles16
Douglas6.4 miles16
Blackjack6.9 miles16
Copeland6.9 miles14
Omen7.1 miles15

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 New Chapel HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q972397The 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 1388547. 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.