Anhalt, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Canyon Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78163. The Survey maps it on the Anhalt quadrangle.

Anhalt within Comal County

On record in Anhalt

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.

Kabelmacher Houselisted 2019 · 0.1 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1920 USGS Smithsons Valley quadrangle1:62500
1927 USGS Smithson Valley quadrangle1:62500
1929 USGS Smithson Valley quadrangle1:62500
1940 USGS Smithson Valley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Anhalt quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS New Braunfels quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS New Braunfels quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

77 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Anhalt between 2005 and 2012, burning about 378 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Debris and open burning	25
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Smoking	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
18 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	09-0091993
16 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
15 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	09-0091695
10 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DIERKS RANCH FIRE
8 August 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	09-0080897
7 August 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	BULVERDE CROSSING
23 August 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	HIGH RIDGE
2 August 2012	Debris and open burning	145 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	OBST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Comal 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
Honey Creek	1.6 miles	10
Oak Cliff Acres	2.1 miles	10
Bulverde South (historical)	2.6 miles	15
Bulverde West (historical)	3.0 miles	10
Bulverde	3.7 miles	11
Bulverde East (historical)	5.3 miles	15
Silver Hills	6.7 miles	10
Spring Branch	7.1 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379349. 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.