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Camp San Saba, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Brady census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76825. It stands on Katemcy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Katemcy quadrangle.

Camp San Saba within McCulloch County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

19 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Camp San Saba between 2005 and 2016, burning about 746 acres in total. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning6
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 September 2010Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID, MCCULLOGH CO/US87/NW CAMP SANSABA
24 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMASON-MCCULLOCH
24 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use35 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBROADBECK
8 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID/MCCULLOCH CO/US87S
25 August 2015Natural130 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBROOKS
12 August 2016Natural275 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRADY CREEK RANCH
8 July 2008Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCulloch County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Camp San Saba: 7 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Sand and Gravel, Industrial/Frac Sand. 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
Voca Frac Sand DistrictSand and Gravel, Industrial/Frac SandProducer
Penn Glass PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
San Saba QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
San Saba QuarrySilicaProducer
Texas Mining Corp. Sand PitSilicaProducer
Voca Pit & PlantSilicaProducer
Voca PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in McCulloch County

Storms near this place

7 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Camp San Saba in 7 storm reports between 2012 and 2024: 7 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
April 2021HailCamp San Saba$3,000The windshield of a motor vehicle was destroyed.
May 2024HailCamp San Saba-A storm chaser reported baseball size hail 7 miles west-northwest of Voca.
May 2024HailCamp San Saba-The public reported tennis ball size hail 5 miles west-southwest of Voca.
May 2024HailCamp San Saba-The public measured larger than 3 inch diameter hail 5 miles west-northwest of Katemcy.
March 2012HailCamp San Saba-Hail was reported on U.S. Highway 85, 5 miles south southeast of Brady.
April 2021HailCamp San Saba-no account filed
April 2021HailCamp San Saba-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McCulloch 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
Voca3.9 miles12
Brady10.5 miles13
Paul Junction11.2 miles13
Calf Creek11.4 miles13
East Sweden11.9 miles13
Niblock12.4 miles12
Rochelle16.0 miles12
West Sweden16.8 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.

Wikidata item Q122541800The 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 1353670. 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.