BlockSpring Hill, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the De Kalb census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75559. The Survey maps it on the Oak Grove quadrangle. It stands 374 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1950 USGS Oak Grove quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS Oak Grove quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
144 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Spring Hill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,001 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 32 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 burning | 69 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 32 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COCKREHAM |
| 9 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 3314 |
| 9 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 114 |
| 9 September 1994 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROADWAY |
| 6 September 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OAK GROVE |
| 3 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BOWIE 08:10 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Hill in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2016 | Tornado (EF1) | Spring Hill | $10,000 | An EF-1 tornado with estimated winds between 85-95 mph touched down along Farm to Market Road 2735 just east of Highway 259 before lifting along County Road 3313. Although the primary damage was snapped and uprooted trees, one home had minor siding loss and one outbuilding was damaged. |
| October 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Hill | $5,000 | Trees were blown down on Highway 259 near Spring Hill. |
| February 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Hill | - | A large hardwood tree was uprooted onto a home in the Spring Hill community northwest of DeKalb. |
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.
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 Spring Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7580554 | The 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 1380587. 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.