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Smith Hill, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Hooks census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75561. It lies near Black Bottom. The Survey maps it on the Redbank quadrangle.

Smith Hill within Bowie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

70 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Smith Hill between 1993 and 2020, burning about 928 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 9 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 burning43
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
4 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 333
3 September 1995Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 206
25 September 2011Natural12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 636
22 September 2002Debris and open burning45 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 194
20 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSPUR 74
2 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2015Debris and open burning23 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6198

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bowie County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Smith Hill in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 hail. 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
May 2016HailSmith Hill-Nickel size hail fell along Interstate 30 just west of Hooks.

Every storm recorded in Bowie 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
Burns1.5 miles11
Redbank2.1 miles11
Barkman2.9 miles13
Red Bank2.9 miles13
Spanish Bluff (historical)4.8 miles11
Hooks5.1 miles13
Whaley5.7 miles13
Victory City6.0 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1368487. 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.