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Mountain Home, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Ingram census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78058. It lies near Rough Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Contrary Creek quadrangle. It stands 1,909 feet above sea level.

Mountain Home within Kerr County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

51 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Mountain Home between 2006 and 2019, burning about 3,380 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/undetermined27
Debris and open burning16
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
26 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service909036
5 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
31 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 August 2011Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHY HARBOR
12 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service180 DEER RUN
8 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service907032
5 July 2009Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTHRILL HILL
5 July 2009Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service907031

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kerr County

Storms near this place

38 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mountain Home in 38 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 26 hail, 7 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
March 2005Thunderstorm WindMountain Home$100,000Severe thunderstorm winds struck the Mountain Home area, causing major damage to the roof of the Hill Country Opry House.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindMountain Home$5,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that tore some shingles off a roof and broke some tree limbs north of Mountain Home.
March 2025HailMountain Home-A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail near I-10 and FM 479 northeast of Mountain Home.
March 2025HailMountain Home-A thunderstorm produced penny size hail east of Mountain Home.
June 2023HailMountain Home-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail east of Mountain Home.
May 2022HailMountain Home-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail west of Harper.
May 2022HailMountain Home-A thunderstorm produced pea to nickel size hail in Mountain Home.
May 2020HailMountain Home-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Mountain Home. Report was from mPING.
May 2020HailMountain Home-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Mountain Home. Report was from mPING.
May 2020HailMountain Home-A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail in Mountain Home. Report was from mPING.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindMountain Home-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 52 kts. northeast of Mountain Home.
June 2019HailMountain Home-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in rural Kerr County between Mountain Home and Harper.
June 2019HailMountain Home-A thunderstorm produced two inch hail along I-10 northeast of Mountain Home.
May 2014HailMountain Home-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail. There was also very heavy rain with 1.00 inch in 45 minutes.
April 2008HailMountain Home-Hail fell near the the highway intersection of 27 and FM 41.
June 2007Flash FloodMountain Home-Scattered thunderstorms over northern Gillespie County and western Kerr County produced rain totals of 1 to 2 inches. Highest totals in Kerr were 4 inches southwest of Mountain Home. FM479 and SH41 were closed due to high water.
July 2007Flash FloodMountain Home-Between 2 and 3 inches of rain fell over Bandera, Kerr, Edwards and Real Counties, with up to 4 inches between Mountain Home and Hunt. SH41 and SH39 were closed due to flash flooding.
July 2007Flash FloodMountain Home-From 3 to 5 inches of rain fell west of Mountain Home on the early morning of July 21. Flash flooding closed SH41 and FM1340 through the late morning.
June 2007Flash FloodMountain Home-Thunderstorms produced widespread rain amounts of 2 to 3 inches in northwest Kerr County with up to 5 inches near Ingram. Closed due to high water were SH39, SH41, and FM479, among other roads.
May 2007Flash FloodMountain Home-Scattered showers and thunderstorms produced general 2 to 3 inch rain amounts between Mountain Home and Kerrville with up to 6 inches near Ingram. IH10 was closed due to the high water, with some cars washed off the road. One high water rescue was made on Turtle Creek.
May 2006Flash FloodMountain Home-From 1 to 3 inches of rain fell in the area around Mountain Home shortly after midnight. Flash flooding closed several roads in the area, including FM479.
October 2006Flash FloodMountain Home-Rainfall from early morning thunderstorms in the Mountain Home area varied between 2 and 4 inches. Law enforcement reported that streets in the area were flooded for about an hour.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindMountain Home-Severe thunderstorm winds blew down trees north of Mountain Home.
May 2022HailMountain Home-no account filed
June 2018HailMountain Home-no account filed
April 2014HailMountain Home-no account filed
March 2013HailMountain Home-no account filed
March 2012HailMountain Home-no account filed
April 2008HailMountain Home-no account filed
April 2006HailMountain Home-no account filed
April 2006HailMountain Home-no account filed
April 2006HailMountain Home-no account filed
October 2005HailMountain Home-no account filed
May 1999HailMountain Home-no account filed
February 1998HailMountain Home-no account filed
May 1995HailMountain Home-no account filed
May 1995Tornado (F0)Mountain Home-no account filed
May 1995HailMountain Home-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kerr 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
Hunt7.5 miles13
Waltonia8.7 miles13
Ingram10.0 miles13
Stowers Corner Windmill12.0 miles8
Mount Wesley13.6 miles13
Kerrville15.5 miles13
Legion17.5 miles12
Junction Windmill18.2 miles8

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 Mountain HomeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14711079The 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 1342167. 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.