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Cherry Mountain, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Fredericksburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78624. It stands on Cherry Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Cherry Mountain quadrangle.

Cherry Mountain 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

66 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Cherry Mountain between 2005 and 2020, burning about 646 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
5 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use240 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWALKING PLOW
3 August 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service506 ROCKY CREEK ROAD
29 August 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service929 CAMPHOUSE ROAD
25 August 2015Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBARONS CREEK CROSSING

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gillespie County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cherry Mountain: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Cherry Mountain MineGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Red Granite DivisionStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working 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
Hilltop2.6 miles11
Crabapple6.2 miles12
Fredericksburg7.9 miles12
Cherry Spring8.3 miles11
Eckert10.1 miles12
Doss11.8 miles11
Willow City11.8 miles12
Morris Ranch12.4 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379537. 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.