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Jentsch Acres, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the New Braunfels census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78132. It lies near Mission Hill. The Survey maps it on the New Braunfels West quadrangle.

Jentsch Acres within Comal County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

165 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Jentsch Acres between 2005 and 2020, burning about 3,842 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined93
Debris and open burning18
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking11
Arson/incendiarism9
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1

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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1101 FIRE
8 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNOV-30
5 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNOV-62
3 September 2011Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNOV-02
27 September 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNOV-23
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNOV-65
18 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFAUST FIRE
17 September 2019Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service3500 IH 35 S FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Comal County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Jentsch Acres: 11 producers, 1 past producer. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur. 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
Tilden Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
Hays County Gravel Company PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kollman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Brauntex MaterialsStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Brauntex Pit & PlantLimestone, GeneralProducer
General Portland Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
New Braunfels Quarry & PlantLimestone, GeneralProducer
New Braunfels Quarry & Plant No.265Limestone, GeneralProducer
Odgen Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Comal 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
Dittlinger1.4 miles14
New Braunfels1.9 miles14
Solms2.0 miles14
Landa Park Highlands2.1 miles14
Preiss Heights3.8 miles14
Gruene4.2 miles14
Thorn Hill4.6 miles14
Comal4.8 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q122548048The 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 1338713. 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.