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Rolling Hills, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Prairie View-Waller census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77445. The Survey maps it on the Howth quadrangle.

Rolling Hills within Waller County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

25 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Rolling Hills between 1996 and 2020, burning about 325 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning10
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCEADER CREEK
21 September 2000Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 421
1 September 2000Natural25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 360
25 August 2019Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTREE FIRE CR324
21 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 177
2 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
27 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
4 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waller 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
Howth2.4 miles8
Cedar Creek2.8 miles8
Fields Store3.7 miles11
Prairie View5.4 miles15
Second Corinth5.4 miles8
Rock Island5.6 miles8
Hempstead5.7 miles10
Saint Paul7.0 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034916. 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.