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Woodland Hills, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Whitney census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76692. It stands on Towash Creek. The Survey maps it on the Whitney quadrangle.

Woodland Hills within Hill 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

260 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 260 fires within 5 miles of Woodland Hills between 2003 and 2020, burning about 3,636 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 8 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 burning118
Missing data/not specified/undetermined61
Equipment and vehicle use48
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,500 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWHITNEY DAM
8 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBCSO
8 September 2011Natural580 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDAM FIRE
8 September 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2124 LOOP
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest Service444 CR 2101
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOON CREEK
6 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 933
4 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 933

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hill County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Woodland Hills: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Oalstrom PitLimestone, GeneralProducer

Every working recorded in Hill 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
Prairie Valley1.7 miles16
Whitney3.5 miles16
Aquilla7.1 miles15
Lebanon7.2 miles16
Live Oak Resorts7.6 miles17
Spivey Crossing7.9 miles16
Peoria7.9 miles14
Vaughan8.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1350533. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.