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Pinehill, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pinehill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75654. It stands on Buckner Branch. The Survey maps it on the Long Branch quadrangle. It stands 387 feet above sea level.

Pinehill within Rusk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

212 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 212 fires within 5 miles of Pinehill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 955 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 1 was 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 burning108
Equipment and vehicle use42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Natural15
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 233
8 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service352 E
25 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2867
25 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
25 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 572
22 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk County

Storms near this place

6 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pinehill in 6 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
October 2025Thunderstorm WindPinehill-Large tree limbs were snapped on CR 366 east of FM 1798.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindPinehill-Multiple trees downed on FM Road 1798 near the Pine Hill community.
March 2022Tornado (EF2)Pinehill-An EF-2 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 130 mph, touched down along County Road 3124 in extreme Eastern Rusk County, snapping and uprooting several trees before crossing County Road 3121 into Western Panola County. While the stronger winds were noted in Panola County, maximum winds were estimated to be near 90 mph (low EF-1 strength) in extreme Eastern Rusk County.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindPinehill-A large tree was blown down across FM 2867 near the Pine Hill community.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindPinehill-Tree down across Farm to Market Road 1798 in the Pine Hill community near the Rusk/Panola County line.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindPinehill-Trees were downed across the road at the intersection of FM. 1798 and FM. 348 in the Pinehill community.

Every storm recorded in Rusk 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
Chapman3.5 miles12
Brachfield4.7 miles12
Church Hill6.8 miles12
Liberty7.7 miles12
Minden8.3 miles12
New Prospect9.6 miles12
Bryce10.0 miles11
Dirgin10.6 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.

Wikipedia article on PinehillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q130242227The 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 1378869. 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.