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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.

Center Point within Kerr County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

21 since 2006

Regional 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service224 ELM PASS RD
7 September 2011Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service900 ELM PASS RD
13 August 2015Natural7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSH 27 LIGHTNING STRIKE
18 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service600 BLOCK RIVER ROAD EAST
5 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7000 BLK 27 AND LANE VALLEY
20 April 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service927 STONELEIGH 12/063
1 April 2011Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service945 ELM PASS RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kerr County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 1997HailCenter Point-no account filed
April 1996HailCenter Point-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kerr 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
Shady Grove3.3 miles9
Guadalupe Heights4.9 miles9
Camp Verde5.0 miles9
Cypress Creek6.0 miles13
Legion6.9 miles12
Kerrville9.0 miles13
Mount Wesley11.1 miles13
Ingram14.2 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 Center PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5059334The 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.