Phantom Hill, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hawley-Noodle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79601. It stands on Elm Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nugent quadrangle.

Phantom Hill within Jones County

On record in Phantom Hill

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 1 record

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

Fort Phantom Hilllisted 1972 · 0.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1891 USGS Anson quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Anson quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Nugent quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Nugent quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Stamford quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

72 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Phantom Hill between 2003 and 2020, burning about 7,715 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined	34
Debris and open burning	17
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1

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
23 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SILO
8 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 1082
6 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ROLLING PLAINS - 11
3 August 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	E. LAKE RD. & FM 1082
2 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	NUGENT ASSIST
18 August 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	13-084
15 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
14 August 2019	Natural	107 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HARVEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jones 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fort Phantom Hill (historical)	0.8 miles	12
Nugent	3.5 miles	12
Hawley	7.5 miles	15
North Abilene	8.4 miles	15
Funston	9.9 miles	11
Hodges	10.8 miles	15
Lueders	11.3 miles	12
Truby	13.1 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1381008. 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.