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Windy Hill, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1973. It stands in the Dalhart census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79022. The Survey maps it on the Windy Hill quadrangle.

Windy Hill within Dallam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

9 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Windy Hill between 2007 and 2017, burning about 1,723 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2

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
10 August 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service15 WEST ON 102
17 June 2008Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 March 2012Equipment and vehicle use35 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWINDY HILL FARMS
25 March 2008Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 March 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBUNKER HILL FIRE
23 March 2007Natural159 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 February 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,034 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBUNKER HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallam 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
Bunker Hill4.5 miles6
Perico11.8 miles7
Corlena13.8 miles7
Ware13.9 miles6
Bolin17.2 miles6
Texline18.0 miles8
Thompson Grove21.8 miles7
Dalhart24.0 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380795. 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.