Hye, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Johnson City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78636. It stands on Williams Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hye quadrangle. It stands 1,453 feet above sea level.
On record in Hye
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Hye Post Office & General Store, Hyefederal building survey, 3 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1894 USGS Fredericksburg quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Hye quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Pedernales River quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Photographs
7 photographs, 2014Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
81 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Hye between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,211 acres in total. 2 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 | 52 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 1992 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Lyndon B. Johnson National Historic Park | WIRE |
| 12 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1212 MARTIN RD |
| 8 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 317 AUSTIN RD BLANCO CO |
| 8 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 25 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 2 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 9242 RR 1320 |
| 2 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hye: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dolostone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
13 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hye in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 8 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2006 | Tornado (F1) | Hye | $50,000 | A small tornado was spotted by the public as it touched down east of Hye. The tornado destroyed a barn, then lifted back up into the parent thunderstorm. No other damage was indicated. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hye | $2,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts of 60 mph that knocked down small tree limbs near Hye. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Hye | - | A thunderstorm produced baseball size hail near Hye. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Hye | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter to half dollar size hail at the intersection of US 290 and Rocky Rd. east of Hye. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Hye | - | A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail in Hye. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Hye | - | A thunderstorm produced nickel to quarter size hail north of Hye. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Hye | - | A thunderstorm produced one inch hail in Hye. |
| March 2007 | Flash Flood | Hye | - | Thunderstorms produced between 2 and 3 inches of rain over much of northern Blanco County, with highest amounts near 5 inches in the Johnson City area. Flash flooding closed FM1623 and FM1323 through much of the afternoon. |
| March 2007 | Flash Flood | Hye | - | Up to 3 inches of rain fell across northern Blanco County, with near 4 inches at Johnson City. Flash flooding closed FM2766 and FM962. |
| October 2006 | Flash Flood | Hye | - | Thunderstorms produced an average 1 inch rain over the northern part of Blanco County, with up to 4 inches near Round Mountain. Flash flooding closed FM962 and FM1323. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Hye | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Hye | - | no account filed |
| October 1997 | Hail | Hye | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rocky Creek | 2.4 miles | 12 | |
| Westbrook (historical) | 3.0 miles | 12 | |
| Post Oak | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Johnson City | 8.7 miles | 15 | |
| Sandy | 9.8 miles | 15 | |
| Flugrath | 10.0 miles | 12 | |
| Blanco | 12.7 miles | 13 | |
| Blowout | 14.1 miles | 11 |
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 Hye | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4116457 | 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 1378475. 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.





