Grapetown, Texas

11 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 78624. It stands on School Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cain City quadrangle. It stands 1,732 feet above sea level.

Grapetown 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.

1894 USGS Fredericksburg quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Cain City quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Pedernales River quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

77 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Grapetown between 2001 and 2020, burning about 1,400 acres in total. 1 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 burning	49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	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
30 September 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
30 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
29 September 2011	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	5932 OLD SAN ANTONIO RD
29 September 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
26 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
8 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
24 August 2009	Natural	221 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BIG HILL

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 Grapetown: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Boenes Pits & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Doebblers Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer	Limestone

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Cain City	3.4 miles	11
Luckenbach	3.9 miles	11
Rocky Hill	5.5 miles	11
Blumenthal	6.5 miles	13
Fredericksburg	9.3 miles	12
Stonewall	10.2 miles	13
Morris Ranch	11.3 miles	11
Albert	11.9 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 Grapetown	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5597026	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 1378377. 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.