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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.

Red Hill within Hill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

175 since 2005

Regional 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 burning72
Missing data/not specified/undetermined60
Equipment and vehicle use25
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBUZZARD/TRANSFORMER
7 September 2019Debris and open burning500 acresTexas A & M Forest Service150
7 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBURN BARRELL
6 September 2014Natural20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service103
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service114
30 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service173
3 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE 933
27 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service205

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hill 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
Blanton1.3 miles17
Grub Hill3.1 miles17
Woodrow3.7 miles17
Huron4.1 miles17
Blum4.5 miles18
Derden6.0 miles17
Live Oak Resorts6.1 miles17
Osceola6.3 miles14

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.