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White Hall, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Northwest Bell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76557. It stands on Kell Branch. The Survey maps it on the Moffat quadrangle.

White Hall within Bell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

56 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of White Hall between 2002 and 2020, burning about 1,243 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1

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
24 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMOODY LEON
23 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBURGANDY LANE FIRE
20 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTRAL TX - 38
4 August 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service5012 CEDAR RIDGE
4 August 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
31 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWINKLER PARK FIRE
30 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11530 BUCKHORN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bell County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Hall in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2024: 2 flash flood. 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 2024Flash FloodWhite Hall$6,000Emergency management reported a high water call at Shine Branch Road and SH 317 north of Temple.
March 2012Flash FloodWhite Hall-Mandatory evacuations were ordered for residents in a mobile home park along Nolan Creek in Killeen. The intersection of Highway 36 and Aycock Road in White Hall was closed due to high water.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Moffat2.4 miles16
Owl Creek4.4 miles19
Bland4.5 miles19
Stampede4.5 miles16
Pendleton4.6 miles15
Jubilee Springs4.7 miles16
Meador Grove4.8 miles16
Morgans Point Resort5.2 miles16

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 White HallAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q113349505The 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 1371372. 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.