Center Point, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Center Point census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78010. It stands on Steel Creek. The Survey maps it on the Center Point quadrangle. 1,263 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,532 feet above sea level.
On record in Center Point
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 1 record
Woolls Buildinglisted 2002
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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
- 1956 USGS Center Point quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Center Point quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Bandera quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
21 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Center Point between 2006 and 2020, burning about 358 acres in total. 1 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 burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 224 ELM PASS RD |
| 7 September 2011 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 900 ELM PASS RD |
| 13 August 2015 | Natural | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SH 27 LIGHTNING STRIKE |
| 18 July 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 17 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 600 BLOCK RIVER ROAD EAST |
| 5 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7000 BLK 27 AND LANE VALLEY |
| 20 April 2012 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 927 STONELEIGH 12/063 |
| 1 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 945 ELM PASS RD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Center Point in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 1997: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1997 | Hail | Center Point | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Center Point | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shady Grove | 3.3 miles | 9 | |
| Guadalupe Heights | 4.9 miles | 9 | |
| Camp Verde | 5.0 miles | 9 | |
| Cypress Creek | 6.0 miles | 13 | |
| Legion | 6.9 miles | 12 | |
| Kerrville | 9.0 miles | 13 | |
| Mount Wesley | 11.1 miles | 13 | |
| Ingram | 14.2 miles | 13 |
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 Center Point | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5059334 | 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 1332539. 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.
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.




