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Spring Hill, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Longview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75605. The Survey maps it on the White Oak quadrangle. It stands 410 feet above sea level.

Spring Hill within Gregg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

472 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 472 fires within 5 miles of Spring Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,589 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 28 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 burning213
Missing data/not specified/undetermined102
Power generation/transmission/distribution53
Equipment and vehicle use29
Arson/incendiarism28
Smoking19
Natural12
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Recreation and ceremony5
Fireworks1

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 42
9 September 2011Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBINGHAM
8 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1802 N. WHITE OAK RD
8 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6177
8 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTEWART ST
8 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service115
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 226
7 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 228

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gregg County

Storms near this place

9 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Hill in 9 storm reports between 2013 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2017Tornado (EF1)Spring Hill$750,000An EF-1 tornado with maximum estimated winds near 105 mph touched down along Pine Tree Road just north of West Cheryl Street northwest of Longview. The tornado proceeded south southeast through the Tenneryville area snapping and uprooting numerous trees in the area. The tornado traveled just west of the Pine Tree ISD campus and continued southeast towards Highway 80, uprooting and twisting numerous trees, with several landing on homes. The tornado continued southeast towards the Greggton community where it damaged a few homes along Willow Springs Drive before crossing Highway 31 and the West Loop 281 where it began to turn more to the east southeast. The tornado caused the most visible damage along its path where it collapsed a steel dome owned by Komatsu, before continuing to the southeast causing mainly tree damage before lifting along Huntsman Way south of Interstate 20 just west of the Eastman Chemical Company.
April 2019LightningSpring Hill$30,000Lightning struck a home on Whitaker Circle which resulted in a fire to the home. No injuries were reported.
April 2026HailSpring Hill-Quarter size hail reported on the north side of Longview.
December 2024Thunderstorm WindSpring Hill-Roof damage reported at a gas station in the intersection of Highway 300 and FM Road 1844.
May 2024HailSpring Hill-Quarter size hail reported in the Spring Hill area of Longview.
February 2020Flash FloodSpring Hill-South Fuller Road at McCann Road was flooded and closed.
February 2017Thunderstorm WindSpring Hill-Trees and power lines were downed in several locations across Northwest Longview, including the 100 block of Tracy Lynn Street.
April 2016Flash FloodSpring Hill-Flooding was reported on Farm to Market Road 1844.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindSpring Hill-Powerlines were snapped and a few shingles were removed from several homes in the neighborhood.

Every storm recorded in Gregg 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
Teneryville1.8 miles13
Seven Pines2.2 miles13
Judson2.9 miles13
Shiloh3.2 miles13
White Oak4.0 miles13
Greggton4.5 miles16
Warren City5.0 miles12
Longview5.4 miles13

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 HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076584The 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 1347736. 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.