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Red Hill, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Marietta-Douglassville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75560. It stands on Henderson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Linden quadrangle.

Red Hill within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

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 Red Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,519 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 21 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 burning145
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Arson/incendiarism21
Equipment and vehicle use11
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Natural8
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2

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 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM995
9 September 1999Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 381
6 September 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6162
29 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 248

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Red Hill: 3 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Concord SchoolIronOccurrence
Siderite MineIronProducerLimonite, Siderite
Surratt DepositIronOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite, Siderite
Warren DepositIronOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

10 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Red Hill in 10 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 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
May 2014Thunderstorm WindRed Hill$5,000Wind damage was reported to a roof at Hwy. 8 and the CR. 1238 intersection.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindRed Hill-Tree downed across Highway 8 south of Douglassville.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindRed Hill-Trees downed along Farm to Market Road 995.
March 2022Tornado (EF1)Red Hill-An EF-1 tornado with estimated maximum winds around 90 mph embedded within a quasi-linear convective system (QLCS) briefly touched down and uprooted approximately 10 hardwood and softwood trees along Highway 77 just southeast of Douglassville. The tornado lifted north of Highway 77 and east of FM 2791.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindRed Hill-Large tree branches were broken at the intersection of County Roads 1118, 1146, and 1119.
April 2019HailRed Hill-A picture of half dollar size hail that fell in the Red Hill community was posted to Facebook.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindRed Hill-Trees were downed resulting in power outages southeast of Douglassville, Texas.
April 2011HailRed Hill-no account filed
May 2001HailRed Hill-no account filed
May 2001HailRed Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Gum Springs1.9 miles10
O'Farrell2.7 miles11
Warren Springs4.2 miles10
Almira4.2 miles10
Douglassville4.8 miles10
Midway4.9 miles10
Pleasant Hill5.0 miles10
Cusseta5.3 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 Red HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q125155428The 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 1378941. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.