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Belterra, Texas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Dripping Springs-Wimberley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78737. It lies near Signal Hill. The Survey maps it on the Signal Hill quadrangle.

Belterra within Hays County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

112 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Belterra between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,421 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service10407 SPRING VALLEY
29 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service104241
14 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9718 LEDGESTONE
14 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9902 OLIVER
11 August 2011Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRIM ROCK FIRE
10 August 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11121 CHERISSE DR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hays 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 Belterra: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Flint. 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
UnnamedFlintPast ProducerFlint

Every working recorded in Hays 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
Bear Creek2.0 miles19
Fitzhugh4.3 miles15
Driftwood5.5 miles15
Dripping Springs5.5 miles15
Hays7.6 miles18
Mount Gainor8.8 miles16
Flatrock Ford9.8 miles18
Hays City10.1 miles18

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.

Wikidata item Q122565151The 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 2805787. 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.