Union Hill, Texas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Fort Cavazos census division. It stands on Bull Branch. The Survey maps it on the Bland quadrangle.

Union Hill within Bell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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.

1894 USGS Gatesville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1924 USGS Gatesville 4-a quadrangle1:48000
1930 USGS Killeen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1947 USGS Bland quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Killeen quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Bland quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Killeen quadrangle1:62500
1985 USGS Temple quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1995 USGS Bland quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

11 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Union Hill between 2002 and 2014, burning about 177 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	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
2 September 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CENTRAL TX - 38
4 August 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
18 July 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
16 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FT HOOD
16 July 2009	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BLORA
21 June 2011	Natural	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	BLAND MOUNTAIN
8 April 2014	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	OWL CREEK ROAD FIRE
8 February 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bell 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Jubilee Springs	2.5 miles	16
Bland	3.2 miles	19
Owl Creek	4.2 miles	19
Woodland	4.2 miles	16
Brookhaven	4.3 miles	17
Westcliff	4.3 miles	19
Moffat	4.5 miles	16
Morgans Point Resort	4.7 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380697. 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.