Union Hill, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Chandler-Brownsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75756. It stands on Cow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brownsboro quadrangle. It stands 459 feet above sea level.

Union Hill within Henderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1948 USGS Brownsboro quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Brownsboro quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1984 USGS Brownsboro quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Union Hill between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,500 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 13 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	66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Arson/incendiarism	13
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	4
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
5 September 1998	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 September 2011	Smoking	18 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 488
3 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
27 September 2004	Debris and open burning	18 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 145
23 September 2002	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 217
22 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
21 September 2005	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 284

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henderson 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
Brownsboro	1.4 miles	13
Evelyn	3.0 miles	13
New Hope	4.0 miles	13
Opelika	4.6 miles	13
Antioch	5.4 miles	15
Chandler	5.8 miles	16
Leagueville	6.4 miles	15
Moore Station	8.8 miles	15

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 Union Hill	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076602	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 1889892. 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.