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Cain City, Texas

11 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. The Survey maps it on the Cain City quadrangle. It stands 1,752 feet above sea level.

Cain City within Gillespie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

173 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Cain City between 2004 and 2020, burning about 1,289 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning119
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Equipment and vehicle use18
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service87 S GRASS FIRE
6 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1420 E MAIN ST
4 September 2019Debris and open burning3.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1991 JUNG LN
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1286 PARADISE RANCH RD
30 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gillespie County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cain City: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, 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
Doebblers QuarryStone, DimensionProducerLimestone
Standard Gypsum Co. PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Boenes Pits & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Weirch Bros Behrends PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wunderlich Ready Mix Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Gillespie County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cain City in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2020: 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
May 2020HailCain City-A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail along Hwy 87 south of Fredericksburg.
May 2015Flash FloodCain City-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing Goehmann Ln. near Fredericksburg.
June 2019HailCain City-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 Hill2.2 miles11
Luckenbach3.2 miles11
Grapetown3.4 miles11
Blumenthal4.1 miles13
Fredericksburg6.2 miles12
Stonewall8.3 miles13
Morris Ranch10.7 miles11
Albert11.2 miles13

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 Cain CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5017572The 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 1378083. 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.