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Pecan Hill, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Waxahachie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75154. It stands on Sanger Branch. The Survey maps it on the Waxahachie quadrangle. 735 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 541 feet above sea level.

Pecan Hill within Ellis County

Population over time

2 figures

Pecan Hill grew from 626 to 735 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
2010626
2020735+109 (+17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

67 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Pecan Hill between 2005 and 2018, burning about 861 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined27
Debris and open burning21
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
27 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service128 E. OVILLA RD
7 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use109 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOVILLA ROAD
1 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMAIN ST. FIRE
6 July 2013Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service013-120
5 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRING RD
27 July 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCACTUS ROAD
26 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCATUS RD
25 July 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRING ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ellis 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
Rockett1.6 miles10
Red Oak2.4 miles19
Sterrett2.6 miles10
Elva2.8 miles19
Oak Leaf4.3 miles19
Ike5.8 miles10
Ovilla6.0 miles21
Trumbull6.4 miles11

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 Pecan HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981750The 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 1388606. 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.