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Woodland Hills, Texas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Southwest Dallas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75137. It stands on Hornet Branch. The Survey maps it on the Duncanville quadrangle.

Woodland Hills within Dallas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 21 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

130 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Woodland Hills between 2006 and 2017, burning about 80 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined101
Equipment and vehicle use13
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service6001-6099 MARVIN D LOVE
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRINIDAD
4 September 2015Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceALTOONA
30 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD GLORY DR
3 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMEAGAN
29 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceW KIEST
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceS WESTMORELAND
23 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD HICKORY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas 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
River Oaks1.3 miles21
Duncanville1.4 miles21
Pleasant Run2.5 miles21
Shamrock2.5 miles21
Red Bird Addition2.7 miles21
DeSoto3.7 miles19
Ledbetter Hills4.3 miles21
Westwood Park4.6 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1376862. 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.