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Sandy Hill, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Gay Hill-Independence census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77833. The Survey maps it on the Independence quadrangle.

Sandy Hill within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

116 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Sandy Hill between 2006 and 2020, burning about 334 acres in total. 5 started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning80
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
9 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCLOVER RD
4 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2621
4 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service9800 FM 2621
30 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePALESTINE RD
3 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKETTLER RD
27 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePALESTINE RD
16 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD INDEPANDENCE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sandy Hill in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2016: 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2016Funnel CloudSandy Hill-A funnel cloud was sighted near Independence.
April 2010HailSandy Hill-Penny sized hail was observed on FM 50.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Independence3.1 miles10
Prairie Hill3.4 miles10
William Penn3.5 miles10
Wiedeville4.1 miles9
Earlywine4.3 miles9
Whitman5.1 miles8
Goodwill7.9 miles8
Daniels8.4 miles8

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 Sandy HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q120355508The 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 1379025. 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.