Orton Hill, Texas

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 5 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Adolphus Sterne Houselisted 1976 · 0.8 miles away
• Stephen William and Mary Price Blount Houselisted 1991 · 1.0 miles away
• Zion Hill Historic Districtlisted 1993 · 0.8 miles away
• Sterne-Hoya Historic Districtlisted 1992 · 0.8 miles away
• Washington Square Historic Districtlisted 1992 · 1.0 miles away

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.

• 1952 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
• 1983 USGS Nacogdoches South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1986 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000
• 1992 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Orton Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 487 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 20 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Fredonia Hill
• Nacogdoches
• Hayward Junction
• Plainview
• Alazan
• Bonita Junction

Every fire recorded in Nacogdoches County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1364591. 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.