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Snow Hill, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Point Blank census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77331. The Survey maps it on the Stephen Creek quadrangle.

Snow Hill within San Jacinto County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Snow Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 681 acres in total. None started naturally. 27 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 burning36
Arson/incendiarism27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
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
8 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1993Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 429
25 September 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 115
13 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePOINT BLANK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Jacinto 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
Stephen Creek2.2 miles13
Pointblank2.7 miles13
Willow Springs2.9 miles13
Darby Hill4.6 miles12
Oakhurst5.5 miles13
Palmetto Park5.6 miles13
Wolf Creek5.9 miles13
Laurel Hill7.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380924. 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.