Royal Forest, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the New Braunfels census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78132. The Survey maps it on the Hunter quadrangle.

Royal Forest within Comal County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1929 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1985 USGS New Braunfels quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS New Braunfels quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

27 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Royal Forest between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,412 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
Debris and open burning	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2009	Smoking	110 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WATSON LANE
2 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	HOFFMAN LN FIRE
13 September 2019	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PURGATORY
29 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	NATURES WAY FIRE
16 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	973 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PURGATORY
23 July 2009	Debris and open burning	55 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TRUNK HILL
16 July 2014	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	HOFFMAN, 14-4595
15 July 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RIVER ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Comal County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Royal Forest: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Hunter Pit	Limestone, General	Producer	1973
	Texas Industries Cement Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fourth Crossing	4.3 miles	14
Hunter	4.4 miles	14
Sattler	4.7 miles	14
Third Crossing	5.1 miles	14
Buffalo Springs (historical)	5.5 miles	14
Canyon City	5.6 miles	14
Second Crossing	6.1 miles	14
First Crossing	6.4 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034585. 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.