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.
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.
Williams Creek Schoollisted 2005 · 0.2 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1894 USGS Fredericksburg quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Hye quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Pedernales River quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
102 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 71 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1519 UPPER ALBERT RD |
| 30 September 1992 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Lyndon B. Johnson National Historic Park | WIRE |
| 28 September 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CEMETARY RD. |
| 2 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 17 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 3888 GILLERMAN LN |
| 12 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1212 MARTIN RD |
| 9 August 2016 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 10000 US 290 E |
| 8 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 317 AUSTIN RD BLANCO CO |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2013Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2019 | Hail | Albert | - | A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail in Albert. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Albert | - | Large trees were uprooted on the LBJ State Park and Historic Site. One large oak tree fell on the visitor's center building. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Albert | - | no account filed |
| March 2013 | Hail | Albert | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stonewall | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Blumenthal | 7.7 miles | 13 | |
| Luckenbach | 8.3 miles | 11 | |
| Rocky Hill | 10.4 miles | 11 | |
| Cain City | 11.2 miles | 11 | |
| Grapetown | 11.9 miles | 11 | |
| Willow City | 15.2 miles | 12 | |
| Fredericksburg | 15.4 miles | 12 |
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 Albert | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2637520 | The 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.





