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Eckert, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Stonewall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78675. It stands on South Branch Willow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Willow City quadrangle. It stands 1,739 feet above sea level.

Eckert within Gillespie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

44 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Eckert between 2005 and 2018, burning about 3,284 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 burning28
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
16 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROMARA LN
30 August 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2005Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 August 2005Debris and open burning13 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 August 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service16 NORTH
1 August 2015Debris and open burning40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILLOW LOOP
9 July 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2012Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD WILLOW RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gillespie County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Eckert: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Talc-Soapstone. 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
Legion Creek AreaTalc-SoapstonePast ProducerMetamorphic

Every working recorded in Gillespie County

Storms near this place

16 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eckert in 16 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 12 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2021HailEckert$1,000A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball to golf ball size hail and wind gusts estimated at 60 mph on a ranch west of Eckert. Wind driven hail broke windows in the house.
July 2025Flash FloodEckert-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding sending water from Sandy Creek over RM 965 near Enchanted Rock State Park.
April 2023HailEckert-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail west of Eckert.
April 2023HailEckert-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Willow City.
May 2022HailEckert-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail southeast of Enchanted Rock State Park.
May 2021HailEckert-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail west of Eckert.
May 2021HailEckert-A thunderstorm produced quarter to ping pong ball size northwest of Eckert.
May 2019HailEckert-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail east of Enchanted Rock State Natural Area.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindEckert-Thunderstorms produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that knocked down several large trees near Enchanted Rock State Natural Area.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindEckert-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that knocked down some large trees.
May 2015Flash FloodEckert-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding. Teague Rd. was cut off by Crabapple Creek.
April 2009HailEckert-A resident reported quarter size hail at the Trois Estate near Enchanted Rock.
May 2021HailEckert-no account filed
April 2014HailEckert-no account filed
April 2014HailEckert-no account filed
May 2011HailEckert-no account filed

Every storm 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
Willow City2.1 miles12
Crabapple5.7 miles12
Cherry Mountain10.1 miles11
Fredericksburg12.0 miles12
Hilltop12.3 miles11
Stonewall12.9 miles13
Blumenthal13.3 miles13
Rocky Hill13.4 miles11

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 EckertAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5332888The 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 1379698. 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.