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Landa Park Highlands, 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 78130. It lies near Panther Canyon. The Survey maps it on the New Braunfels West quadrangle.

Landa Park Highlands within Comal County

On record in Landa Park Highlands

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

170 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 170 fires within 5 miles of Landa Park Highlands between 2005 and 2020, burning about 3,222 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined92
Debris and open burning21
Smoking11
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism9
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural2
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
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
18 September 2005Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Comal County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Landa Park Highlands: 12 producers, 1 past producer. 12 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
Brauntex MaterialsStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Brauntex Pit & PlantLimestone, GeneralProducer
Centex Ingram Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
General Portland Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hays County Gravel Company PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kollman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
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
New Braunfels1.4 miles14
Preiss Heights1.8 miles14
Jentsch Acres2.1 miles14
Gruene2.3 miles14
Thorn Hill2.7 miles14
First Crossing3.1 miles14
Dittlinger3.4 miles14
Freiheit3.8 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 Q122566318The 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 1339606. 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.