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Preiss Heights, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the New Braunfels census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78132. It stands on Blieders Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Braunfels East quadrangle.

Preiss Heights within Comal County

On record in Preiss Heights

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

154 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Preiss Heights between 2005 and 2020, burning about 420 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined84
Equipment and vehicle use19
Debris and open burning16
Smoking10
Recreation and ceremony7
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1101 FIRE
3 September 2011Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNOV-02
29 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePARK ROAD
27 September 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNOV-23
2 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOFFMAN LN FIRE
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNOV-65
18 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFAUST FIRE
18 September 2005Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Comal County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Preiss Heights: 7 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brauntex Pit & PlantLimestone, GeneralProducer
Tilden Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
Odgen Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Txi Cement Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hays County Gravel Company PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kollman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working 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
Gruene0.8 miles14
Thorn Hill1.1 miles14
Landa Park Highlands1.8 miles14
First Crossing2.1 miles14
New Braunfels2.6 miles14
Freiheit3.1 miles14
Second Crossing3.4 miles14
Jentsch Acres3.8 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.

Wikidata item Q122557487The 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 1344535. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.