Winter Hill, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Cushing-Douglass census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75943. It stands on Caney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake Nacogdoches North quadrangle.

Winter Hill within Nacogdoches County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1952 USGS Douglass quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Lake Nacogdoches North quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

131 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Winter Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,121 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 9 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	55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	36
Natural	10
Arson/incendiarism	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2
Fireworks	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
7 September 2013	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7116
3 September 2005	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 206
3 September 1995	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
26 September 2017	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
26 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 580
2 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 485
2 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 202
14 September 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7105

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nacogdoches 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
Douglass	3.1 miles	11
Nat	3.7 miles	11
Eden	4.8 miles	11
Alazan	5.6 miles	11
Lilbert	6.7 miles	11
Looneyville	7.2 miles	11
County Line	7.4 miles	11
Central Heights	8.4 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1889744. 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.