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Blumenthal, 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 78624. It stands on South Grape Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stonewall quadrangle. 50 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 1,506 feet above sea level.

Blumenthal within Gillespie County

On record in Blumenthal

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

167 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Blumenthal between 2001 and 2020, burning about 675 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 burning130
Equipment and vehicle use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking2

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 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service754 WOODLAND DR
8 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service290 E CHAPARRAL RD
6 September 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2011Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1519 UPPER ALBERT RD
4 September 2019Debris and open burning3.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1991 JUNG LN
30 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service290 @ BLUMENTAL FARMS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gillespie County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Blumenthal: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Standard Gypsum Co. PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Boenes Pits & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Weirch Bros Behrends PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Gillespie County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blumenthal in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2019: 2 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2019HailBlumenthal-no account filed
March 2012HailBlumenthal-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gillespie 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
Rocky Hill2.8 miles11
Luckenbach3.1 miles11
Cain City4.1 miles11
Stonewall4.2 miles13
Grapetown6.5 miles11
Albert7.7 miles13
Fredericksburg7.8 miles12
Willow City12.5 miles12

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 BlumenthalAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4930737The 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 1378023. 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.

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.