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New Berlin, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Southwest Guadalupe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78155. The Survey maps it on the New Berlin quadrangle. 656 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 571 feet above sea level.

New Berlin within Guadalupe County

On record in New Berlin

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.

Population over time

3 figures

New Berlin grew from 467 to 656 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000467
2010511+44 (+9%)
2020656+145 (+28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

98 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of New Berlin between 2005 and 2015, burning about 1,234 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/undetermined43
Equipment and vehicle use27
Debris and open burning26
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
22 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 775 FIRE
20 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHARTFEILD RD
29 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 August 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service455 STREY LN.
20 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePARTNERSHIP FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guadalupe County

Storms near this place

11 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Berlin in 11 storm reports between 2004 and 2021: 4 hail, 3 flash flood, 3 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
June 2004Tornado (F0)New Berlin$80,000The Guadalupe County Emergency Manager reported that a small tornado had touched down just southeast of New Berlin, destroying a barn and damaging several trees. The tornado was small and short-lived. It dissipated shortly after striking the trees.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindNew Berlin$20,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 80 mph that blew the roof off a barn at Gin Spur Rd. and Gin Rd. near New Berlin.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindNew Berlin$2,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that knocked down a tree across Smith Falor Rd. east of New Berlin.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindNew Berlin$2,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 50 mph that damaged the roofs of several outbuildings and a car port and knocked down several trees in New Berlin.
May 2021HailNew Berlin-A thunderstorm produced two inch hail in New Berlin.
March 2012Flash FloodNew Berlin-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing numerous roads in Guadalupe County including Weir Ln, Highway 123 at Cordova Rd, Zuehl Crossing at Cibolo Creek, and Redwood Rd.
September 2010Flash FloodNew Berlin-Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Hermine produced flash flooding which closed FM2538 near New Berlin.
October 2009Flash FloodNew Berlin-The county roads department reported many roads closed around New Berlin due to high water.
March 2008HailNew Berlin-Residents reported penny size hail along Warncke Road just south of New Berlin.
April 2016HailNew Berlin-no account filed
April 2004HailNew Berlin-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
Sweet Home3.3 miles9
Santa Clara3.5 miles14
Zuehl3.7 miles10
Olmos3.9 miles9
Muehlsville6.7 miles14
Jakes Colony7.1 miles13
Marion7.7 miles14
Zipp8.0 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.

Wikipedia article on New BerlinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981275The 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 1342430. 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.