Ammannsville, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Schulenburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78945. The Survey maps it on the Ammannsville quadrangle. It stands 404 feet above sea level.

Ammannsville within Fayette County

On record in Ammannsville

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.

St. John the Baptist Catholic Churchlisted 1983 · 0.1 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Ammannsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Eagle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Ammannsville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 268 acres in total. None 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	17
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
30 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 September 2005	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CENTRAL TX - 24
7 August 1999	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HOLMAN COMPLEX
18 August 1998	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
13 August 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
12 August 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	6120 HWY 77 N
7 July 2020	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	KREISCHE BLUFF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette 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 Ammannsville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Holman Valley Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Gravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Fayette 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
Swiss Alp	2.7 miles	10
Holman	3.3 miles	10
Dubina	4.4 miles	10
Cozy Corner	4.9 miles	10
Mullins Prairie	4.9 miles	10
Hostyn	5.1 miles	10
High Hill	6.1 miles	10
Freyburg	6.1 miles	10

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 Ammannsville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4747165	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 1329504. 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.