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Rhea Mills, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Celina census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75078. It stands on Gentle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Weston quadrangle. It stands 730 feet above sea level.

Rhea Mills within Collin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

81 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Rhea Mills between 2005 and 2016, burning about 133 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Equipment and vehicle use12
Debris and open burning9
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHASTA & CRANBERRY
9 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1244 GRAY BRANCH
8 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH PRESTON ROAD
20 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1771 S. PRESTON
18 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePRESTON RD/CARTER RANCH RD
18 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSH 289/ CR 83
12 September 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 168 & CR 862
6 August 2012Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1461/CR 84

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Collin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rhea Mills: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
James Fraze Co Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Collin County

Storms near this place

6 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rhea Mills in 6 storm reports between 2012 and 2024: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2024HailRhea Mills$50,000Report from mPING: Golf Ball (1.75 in.).
August 2012Thunderstorm WindRhea Mills$8,000A garage door was blown in and street signs twisted near the intersection of FM 1461 and FM 2478 in Prosper. In addition, large tree limbs were also snapped off trees.
April 2024HailRhea Mills-Report from MPing.
June 2023HailRhea Mills-Reported via mPing.
June 2023HailRhea Mills-Reported via mPing.
April 2018HailRhea Mills-Emergency management reported quarter-sized hail approximately 4 miles south of the city of Celina, TX.

Every storm recorded in Collin 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
Bloomdale3.0 miles11
Prosper4.0 miles13
Roland4.6 miles7
Buckner4.8 miles11
Celina5.1 miles8
Rockhill5.5 miles13
Chambersville6.0 miles7
Collin6.2 miles13

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 Rhea MillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14711280The 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 1380436. 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.