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Tomlinson Hill, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lott census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76632. It stands on Deer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Marlin quadrangle.

Tomlinson Hill within Falls County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

11 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Tomlinson Hill between 2005 and 2016, burning about 182 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
20 September 2015Debris and open burning24 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFALLS COUNTY BRUSH FIRE #1
5 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service540 RIVERVIEW RD
4 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRAZOS
4 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2012-114
17 July 2009Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBEHIND PRISON FIRE
22 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined90 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 June 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service527 HONEY LN.
22 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service242 MT. PLEASANT DRIVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Falls 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
Triangle1.1 miles8
Chilton4.2 miles14
Lott5.0 miles13
Marlin5.5 miles8
Rocky Hill6.0 miles8
Satin6.0 miles14
Sunrise6.1 miles7
Guda6.8 miles14

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 Tomlinson HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7819024The 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 1370004. 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.