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Peoria, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hillsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76645. The Survey maps it on the Peoria quadrangle.

Peoria within Hill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

247 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 247 fires within 5 miles of Peoria between 2003 and 2020, burning about 1,359 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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 burning90
Missing data/not specified/undetermined87
Equipment and vehicle use40
Arson/incendiarism14
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHCR 1313 & SH 22
9 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1311 COMMAND
9 September 2017Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHCR1311
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID WHITNEY
9 September 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHCR 1311
8 September 2012Debris and open burning1.2 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHCR 1250
8 September 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2124 LOOP
6 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePR 12565

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hill County

Storms near this place

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peoria in 7 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1994Thunderstorm WindPeoria$5,000A barn was partially unroofed by thunderstorm winds.
April 2023HailPeoria-Ping pong ball sized hail was reported between Whitney and Hillsboro. Location was estimated based on time and radar.
April 2020HailPeoria-Penny size hail was reported 7 miles west of Hillsboro.
August 2016FloodPeoria-Emergency manager reports HWY 22 closed due to water over the road.
May 2015Tornado (EF0)Peoria-An amateur radio operator captured a brief tornado on camera at 5:03 PM CDT outside of Peoria. The tornado lasted only a few minutes, and produced minor damage to farmland.
March 1996HailPeoria-no account filed
April 1993Thunderstorm WindPeoria-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hill 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
Woodbury4.9 miles15
Vaughan5.1 miles14
Winslow5.3 miles14
Hillsboro5.4 miles15
Whitney5.6 miles16
Chatt7.4 miles14
Live Oak Resorts7.8 miles17
Woodland Hills7.9 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q104859593The 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 1343839. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.