Pine Hill, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the New Summerfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75766. It stands on Sampson Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Summerfield quadrangle. It stands 358 feet above sea level.

Pine Hill within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1943 USGS Rusk quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS Rusk quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS New Summerfield quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

235 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 235 fires within 5 miles of Pine Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,056 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 9 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 burning	140
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	38
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Smoking	12
Natural	11
Arson/incendiarism	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY 110
8 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	14 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 527
7 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 4608 FIRE
6 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 856 AND CR 4716
4 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 2274 N
25 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	397 PENNY LANE
25 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	715 CR 4227
25 September 2012	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	79&110

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee 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
Rock Hill	1.4 miles	11
Emmaus	2.5 miles	15
Lone Star	3.0 miles	11
New Summerfield	4.3 miles	11
Griffin	4.6 miles	15
Concord	5.7 miles	15
Blackjack	6.3 miles	15
Stryker Creek Junction	7.1 miles	11

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 Q22076556

The 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 1378865. 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.