Nelson City, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Boerne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78006. It stands on Allen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Waring quadrangle. It stands 1,585 feet above sea level.

Nelson City 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.

1954 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Comfort quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Waring quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS New Braunfels quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS New Braunfels quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

81 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Nelson City between 2006 and 2020, burning about 492 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 burning	44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	2
Natural	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
6 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	609 FM 289
4 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	INTERSTATE 10 533
3 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	289 TRUCK/GRASS SPREAD
27 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	POEHNERT RD
20 September 2006	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MILE MARKER 533
5 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	MESQUITE ASH FIRE
5 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	IH 10 W @ MM 536-537

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Welfare	3.1 miles	10
Walnut Grove	3.3 miles	12
Waring	5.1 miles	10
Kreutzberg	6.4 miles	12
Boerne	6.6 miles	12
Ammans Crossing	6.7 miles	10
Sisterdale	7.7 miles	10
Comfort	8.5 miles	10

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 Nelson City	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q24260749	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 1378733. 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.