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Nocona Hills, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the St. Jo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76255. It stands on Polecat Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nocona quadrangle. 637 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 909 feet above sea level.

Nocona Hills within Montague County

Population over time

2 figures

Nocona Hills fell from 675 to 637 between 2010 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
2010675
2020637-38 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

237 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 237 fires within 5 miles of Nocona Hills between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,035 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined99
Equipment and vehicle use62
Debris and open burning43
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2012106
5 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2012103
29 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2015088
29 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2016098
27 September 2007Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2012111
25 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service130 ACOMA DR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montague 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
Hynds City5.6 miles9
Nocona6.0 miles10
Valley View6.6 miles9
Spanish Fort6.7 miles10
Corinth6.8 miles9
Rowland6.8 miles9
Bonita7.0 miles9
Capps Corner8.3 miles9

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 Nocona HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6044262The 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 2652414. 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.