Bergheim, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Boerne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78006. The Survey maps it on the Bergheim quadrangle. It stands 1,437 feet above sea level.

Bergheim within Kendall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1954 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Boerne quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Bergheim quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS New Braunfels quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS New Braunfels quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

60 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Bergheim between 2005 and 2014, burning about 276 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 burning	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	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	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	110 HOSKINS TRAIL
4 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	200 BLK FM 3351 N
10 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DIERKS RANCH FIRE
5 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	35 GUTHRIE
5 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	1000 BLK SH 46 EAST
31 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	100 BLK FM 3351 N
31 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 July 2011	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FINE RANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kendall 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
Kreutzberg	5.9 miles	12
Oberly Crossing	6.4 miles	10
Ammans Crossing	6.9 miles	10
Boerne	8.6 miles	12
Walnut Grove	8.9 miles	12
Kendalia	10.2 miles	10
Nelson City	12.2 miles	10
Sisterdale	12.7 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 Bergheim	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4891649	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 1379408. 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.