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Oak Cliff Acres, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Canyon Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78070. The Survey maps it on the Bergheim quadrangle.

Oak Cliff Acres within Comal 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.

Fires near this place

57 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Oak Cliff Acres between 2005 and 2013, burning about 409 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service200 BLK FM 3351 N
16 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDIERKS RANCH FIRE
5 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1000 BLK SH 46 EAST
31 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service100 BLK FM 3351 N
11 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBLANCO ROAD
6 July 2011Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFINE RANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Honey Creek0.6 miles10
Anhalt2.1 miles15
Bulverde West (historical)2.5 miles10
Bulverde South (historical)4.5 miles15
Silver Hills5.1 miles10
Bulverde5.3 miles11
Spring Branch7.4 miles14
Bulverde East (historical)7.4 miles15

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 Q122567298The 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 2034967. 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.