BlockSandhill, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Floydada census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79235. It lies near Running Water Draw. The Survey maps it on the Sandhill quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Lubbock quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1965 USGS Sandhill quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lubbock quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
15 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Sandhill between 2008 and 2017, burning about 353 acres in total. None 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/undetermined | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 June 2009 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 30 June 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 10 May 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 29 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | WHEAT STUBLE FIRE |
| 4 March 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 25 March 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 23 March 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 23 March 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sandhill in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2019: 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sandhill | $2,000 | Eight power poles were snapped by strong thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Sandhill | - | A trained spotter reported hail up to tennis ball size west of Floydada. No damage was reported. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Sandhill | - | Golf ball size hail was reported by a storm chaser. No damage was reported. |
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 1380492. 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.
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.