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Kingsbury, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Northeast Guadalupe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78155. The Survey maps it on the Kingsbury quadrangle.

Kingsbury within Guadalupe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

32 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Kingsbury between 1999 and 2019, burning about 1,253 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
21 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 90 E FIRE
2 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceLULING RD FIRE
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service10 & 2438 FIRE
13 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRUSTY CREEK FIRE
22 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3587
20 August 2018Debris and open burning147 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJONES ROAD FIRE
2 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined800 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJAHNS RD FIRE
18 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2438 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guadalupe County

Storms near this place

11 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kingsbury in 11 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2023Thunderstorm WindKingsbury$20,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that blew the roof off of a small barn in Kingsbury.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindKingsbury$5,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 75 mph that knocked down a telephone pole near the Tollway 130 in rural Guadalupe County.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindKingsbury$2,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that knocked down a tree across FM 20 in rural Guadalupe County.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindKingsbury$2,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that knocked down a tree across Gravel Pit Rd. in rural Guadalupe County.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindKingsbury-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts measured at 54 kts by the Barker Ranch mesonet station.
April 2020HailKingsbury-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail near the intersection of FM 20 and Hwy 130 near Kingsbury.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindKingsbury-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that knocked some eight to nine inch diameter tree limbs onto a house.
October 2009HailKingsbury-There was penny size hail reported at the Silver Wolf Ranch.
July 2007Flash FloodKingsbury-Between 2 and 3 inches of rain fell in central Guadalupe County, with up to 5 inches just south of Kingsbury. FM477, FM466, and Alternate US90 were closed.
March 2007Flash FloodKingsbury-Up to 3 inches of rain fell in the late afternoon around Kingsbury, closing FM20 due to flash flooding.
October 2009HailKingsbury-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Guadalupe 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
Weinert4.0 miles15
Lauback6.1 miles15
Geronimo7.4 miles15
Galle7.7 miles15
Seguin9.1 miles16
Staples9.2 miles13
Zorn9.6 miles13
Barbarosa10.0 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1339146. 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.