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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1894 USGS Kerrville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Contrary Creek quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Kerrville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
51 since 2006Regional 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/undetermined | 27 |
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 909036 |
| 5 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 31 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 2 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SHY HARBOR |
| 12 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 180 DEER RUN |
| 8 July 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 907032 |
| 5 July 2009 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | THRILL HILL |
| 5 July 2009 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 907031 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
38 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountain Home | $100,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds struck the Mountain Home area, causing major damage to the roof of the Hill Country Opry House. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountain Home | $5,000 | A 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 2025 | Hail | Mountain Home | - | A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail near I-10 and FM 479 northeast of Mountain Home. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Mountain Home | - | A thunderstorm produced penny size hail east of Mountain Home. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Mountain Home | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail east of Mountain Home. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Mountain Home | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail west of Harper. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Mountain Home | - | A thunderstorm produced pea to nickel size hail in Mountain Home. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Mountain Home | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Mountain Home. Report was from mPING. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Mountain Home | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Mountain Home. Report was from mPING. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Mountain Home | - | A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail in Mountain Home. Report was from mPING. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountain Home | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 52 kts. northeast of Mountain Home. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Mountain Home | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in rural Kerr County between Mountain Home and Harper. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Mountain Home | - | A thunderstorm produced two inch hail along I-10 northeast of Mountain Home. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Mountain Home | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail. There was also very heavy rain with 1.00 inch in 45 minutes. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Mountain Home | - | Hail fell near the the highway intersection of 27 and FM 41. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Mountain 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Mountain 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Mountain 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Mountain 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Mountain 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 2006 | Flash Flood | Mountain 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 2006 | Flash Flood | Mountain 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 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountain Home | - | Severe thunderstorm winds blew down trees north of Mountain Home. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Mountain Home | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Mountain Home | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Mountain Home | - | no account filed |
| March 2013 | Hail | Mountain Home | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Mountain Home | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Mountain Home | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Mountain Home | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Mountain Home | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Mountain Home | - | no account filed |
| October 2005 | Hail | Mountain Home | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Mountain Home | - | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Hail | Mountain Home | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Mountain Home | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Mountain Home | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Mountain Home | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunt | 7.5 miles | 13 | |
| Waltonia | 8.7 miles | 13 | |
| Ingram | 10.0 miles | 13 | |
| Stowers Corner Windmill | 12.0 miles | 8 | |
| Mount Wesley | 13.6 miles | 13 | |
| Kerrville | 15.5 miles | 13 | |
| Legion | 17.5 miles | 12 | |
| Junction Windmill | 18.2 miles | 8 |
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 Home | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14711079 | The 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.





