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.
Population over time
3 figuresNew 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 553 | |
| 2010 | 594 | +41 (+7%) |
| 2020 | 620 | +26 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 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.
- 1938 USGS Winona quadrangle1:48000
- 1943 USGS Winona quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1966 USGS Bascom quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
366 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 215 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 74 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 29 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
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 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 6301 |
| 8 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 111 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | KERR MCGEE FIRE |
| 8 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 342 |
| 7 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 7 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 7 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 162 |
| 6 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 20864 CR 26 FIRE |
| 6 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chapel Hill | 1.1 miles | 16 | |
| Bascom | 2.7 miles | 16 | |
| Elberta | 4.0 miles | 16 | |
| Whitehouse | 6.1 miles | 16 | |
| Douglas | 6.4 miles | 16 | |
| Blackjack | 6.9 miles | 16 | |
| Copeland | 6.9 miles | 14 | |
| Omen | 7.1 miles | 15 |
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 Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q972397 | 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 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.






