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Snow Hill, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Blue Ridge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75442. The Survey maps it on the Blue Ridge quadrangle. It stands 574 feet above sea level.

Snow Hill 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

127 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Snow Hill between 2005 and 2020, burning about 824 acres in total. None 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 burning56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Equipment and vehicle use17
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 500 GRASS FIRE
8 September 2009Arson/incendiarism25 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1142 N BUS 78 FIRE
7 September 2009Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 78 @ FM 981 FIRE
7 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1135 N BUS 78 FIRE
28 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceELM STREET BRUSH FIRE
26 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 565 GRASS FIRE
24 September 2013Fireworks22 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBLACK GATE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Collin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Snow Hill in 1 storm report in 2022: 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
February 2022HailSnow Hill-Reported via mPing.

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
Fayburg0.9 miles7
Verona2.7 miles7
Arnold3.0 miles7
Blue Ridge3.0 miles7
Frognot3.5 miles7
Climax5.0 miles10
Valdasta5.3 miles7
Altoga5.6 miles10

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 Snow HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076582The 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 2034660. 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.