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Albert, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Stonewall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78671. It stands on West Fork Williams Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hye quadrangle. 7 people lived here at the 2015 count. It stands 1,476 feet above sea level.

Albert within Gillespie County

On record in Albert

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

102 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Albert between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,338 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
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
5 September 2011Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1519 UPPER ALBERT RD
30 September 1992Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreLyndon B. Johnson National Historic ParkWIRE
28 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCEMETARY RD.
2 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
17 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service3888 GILLERMAN LN
12 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1212 MARTIN RD
9 August 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service10000 US 290 E
8 August 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service317 AUSTIN RD BLANCO CO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gillespie County

Storms near this place

4 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Albert in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2019: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2019HailAlbert-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail in Albert.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindAlbert-Large trees were uprooted on the LBJ State Park and Historic Site. One large oak tree fell on the visitor's center building.
May 2013HailAlbert-no account filed
March 2013HailAlbert-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gillespie 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
Stonewall4.4 miles13
Blumenthal7.7 miles13
Luckenbach8.3 miles11
Rocky Hill10.4 miles11
Cain City11.2 miles11
Grapetown11.9 miles11
Willow City15.2 miles12
Fredericksburg15.4 miles12

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 AlbertAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2637520The 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 1377922. 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.