Red Hill, Texas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Blum census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76627. The Survey maps it on the Blanton quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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 Cleburne quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Cleburne quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1927 USGS Blum quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Blanton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Cleburne quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
175 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Red Hill between 2005 and 2020, burning about 4,150 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 10 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 | 72 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 25 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BUZZARD/TRANSFORMER |
| 7 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 500 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 150 |
| 7 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BURN BARRELL |
| 6 September 2014 | Natural | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 103 |
| 4 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 114 |
| 30 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 173 |
| 3 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE 933 |
| 27 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 205 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378940. 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.






