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Kelland Heights, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the San Antonio Central census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78227. The Survey maps it on the Culebra Hill quadrangle.

Kelland Heights within Bexar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

80 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Kelland Heights between 2006 and 2014, burning about 134 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined54
Debris and open burning12
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUS-90 & 1604
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRAVEN FIELD/QUIET PLAIN
27 September 2009Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 90 W/GROSENBACHER RD.
27 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service10235 CANTON FIELD
19 September 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceW FM 1604 S/MARBACH RD
15 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service12803 W LOOP 1604
8 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1604 & PRUE RD.
6 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service9915 FUCHSIA VIEW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bexar County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Kelland Heights: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bentonite, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bexar County QuarrysStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitsBentonitePast ProducerSedimentary
1604 E. Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Highway 90 Sand & Gravel PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Strauss PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Bexar 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
Lackland Heights0.4 miles13
Lackland Terrace0.6 miles13
Westwood Village0.9 miles13
Lackland City1.0 miles13
Valley Hi2.1 miles12
Withers5.2 miles13
Heafer5.3 miles13
Phoenix5.8 miles12

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 Q122554904The 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 1338993. 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.