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Kendalia, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Comfort census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78027. It stands on Ross Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kendalia quadrangle. It stands 1,385 feet above sea level.

Kendalia within Kendall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

46 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Kendalia between 2006 and 2015, burning about 739 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 burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service200 BLK FM 3351
29 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJONAS FIRE
26 September 2013Natural105 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceACKER FIRE
26 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCARBO FIRE
26 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHEADWATERS
14 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTAMAYO FIRE
1 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kendall County

Storms near this place

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kendalia in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 9 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 2 deaths. 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 2007Flash FloodKendalia2 killedGeneral rainfall of 1 to 2 inches caused brief flash flooding in the area just east of Kendalia. Between 2100 CST and 2130CST, a woman was returning home and while driving on Crabapple Lane in eastern Kendall County and attempted to cross a low water crossing on her drive. The vehicle was apparently washed off the road or partially off the road. Sometime later, her husband noticed the headlights and got in his vehicle to check. He attempted to wade through the water to rescue his wife. Both were drowned in the flood.
April 2006HailKendalia$50,000Hail up to the size of baseballs destroyed windshields and dented cars as well as breaking hundreds of windows in homes in and around Kendalia.
April 2010HailKendalia$5,000A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail which damaged a car.
March 1994HailKendalia$3no account filed
August 2025Flash FloodKendalia-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. The fire department closed RM 473 at Sheps Creek west of Kendalia. There was 4.5 feet of water over the road.
October 2025Tornado (EF0)Kendalia-A tornado touched down in Kendall County approximately four miles southwest of Kendalia traveled 9.8 miles to the east crossed into Blanco County approximately a quarter of a mile west-northwest of the intersection of Hwy 281 and FM 306 continued east a quarter of a mile to the Comal County line a tenth of mile northwest of the Hwy 281/FM 306 intersection and continued another 10.2 miles east before dissipating after crossing FM 306 near Hancock Rd. As the tornado moved through rural Kendall County it produced sporadic tree damage estimated at EF-0 (65-80 mph). In Comal County it produced EF-1 damage. The path width was 300 yards.
September 2012Flash FloodKendalia-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing Hwy 473 outside Kendalia.
February 2009HailKendalia-A resident reported quarter size hail near River Mountain Ranch and Ranch Road 474.
July 2007Flash FloodKendalia-Thunderstorms produced between 3 and 4 inches of rain in the Kendalia area, closing FM473 and FM3351 due to flash flooding.
March 2001Tornado (F0)Kendalia-A small and short-lived tornado was observed by Amateur Radio Spotters just south of Kendalia. The tornado was in open country and dissipated quickly, causing no damage.
January 2017HailKendalia-no account filed
March 2006HailKendalia-no account filed
October 2005HailKendalia-no account filed
June 1998HailKendalia-no account filed
April 1997HailKendalia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kendall 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
Oberly Crossing4.9 miles10
Ammans Crossing9.4 miles10
Bergheim10.2 miles10
Sisterdale10.5 miles10
Kreutzberg10.9 miles12
Lindendale11.4 miles11
Walnut Grove13.2 miles12
Welfare14.4 miles10

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 KendaliaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6388868The 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 1339027. 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.

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.