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Camp Willow, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Seguin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78130. The Survey maps it on the New Braunfels East quadrangle.

Camp Willow within Guadalupe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

176 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Camp Willow between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,285 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 8 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined85
Debris and open burning34
Equipment and vehicle use17
Smoking12
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1101 FIRE
27 September 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNOV-23
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNOV-65
18 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFAUST FIRE
16 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNOV-18
11 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1900 IH 35 N FIRE
7 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceST MARY ST, 14-5133
7 August 2009Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1120 ALTWEIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guadalupe 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 Camp Willow: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sulfur, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Brauntex Pit & PlantLimestone, GeneralProducer
Tilden Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
Txi Cement Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Guadalupe 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
Lake Dunlap0.7 miles14
Clear Springs0.9 miles14
Schumannsville1.5 miles14
Barbarosa4.3 miles14
Hilda Siding5.3 miles14
Geronimo5.4 miles15
McQueeney5.4 miles14
Nolte6.6 miles14

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 Q122543047The 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 1332021. 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.