Sisterdale, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Comfort census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78006. It stands on East Sister Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sisterdale quadrangle. It stands 1,280 feet above sea level.
On record in Sisterdale
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 1 record
Sisterdale Valley Districtlisted 1975
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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
- 1957 USGS Boerne quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Sisterdale quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS New Braunfels quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS New Braunfels quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
46 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Sisterdale between 2006 and 2020, burning about 651 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 | 28 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 473 BRUSH OUT |
| 27 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 20 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 75 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | N/A |
| 30 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ZOELLER 333 |
| 23 August 2009 | Natural | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SISTERDALE |
| 15 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 925 FM473 BURN |
| 15 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | JOSHUA CREEK FIRE |
| 13 August 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 635 FM 1376 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sisterdale in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 10 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1998 | Hail | Sisterdale | $30,000 | Hail broke out windows in buildings. |
| September 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sisterdale | $30,000 | no account filed |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sisterdale | $20,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph which snapped a large oak tree in half and pulled a tin roof off a house in Sisterdale. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Sisterdale | $10,000 | Hail as large as softballs smashed the windshield and dented the body of a DPS vehicle near Sisterdale. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sisterdale | $5,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that blew down numerous trees on the property of the Sisterdale COOP observer. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Sisterdale | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail southeast of Sisterdale. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Sisterdale | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail near Sisterdale. Report was from mPING. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Sisterdale | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Sisterdale. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Sisterdale | - | A thunderstorm produced nickel to quarter size hail and wind gusts estimated at 50 mph. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sisterdale | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph near Sisterdale. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Sisterdale | - | Scattered showers and thunderstorms over Kendall, Comal and Bexar Counties produced general 2-3 inch rains, with up to 4 inches near Sisterdale. FM473 was shut down between Sisterdale and Kendalia due to high water. |
| January 2007 | Flash Flood | Sisterdale | - | Storms with the cold front dropped between 1 and 2 inches over eastern Kendall County with up to 4 inches in places between Sisterdale and Kendalia. FM473, FM474, and FM3351 were closed in the early afternoon for a short time due to flash flooding. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Sisterdale | - | Thunderstorms across much of Kendall and Bandera Counties produced general rainfall of 2 to 3 inches, with up to 4 inches in the Sisterdale area. FM473 and FM1366 were closed through the evening. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Sisterdale | - | Virtually the entire county received between 2 and 4 inches of rainfall. Highest totals were 8 inches between Sisterdale and Boerne. Nearly all rural roads in Kendall County were shut down due to the flash flooding. |
| May 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Sisterdale | - | Amateur Radio spotters observed a small , short-lived tornado near Sisterdale. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Sisterdale | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Sisterdale | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Sisterdale | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Sisterdale | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waring | 4.6 miles | 10 | |
| Welfare | 5.0 miles | 10 | |
| Ammans Crossing | 6.0 miles | 10 | |
| Walnut Grove | 7.3 miles | 12 | |
| Nelson City | 7.7 miles | 10 | |
| Kreutzberg | 7.9 miles | 12 | |
| Oberly Crossing | 7.9 miles | 10 | |
| Comfort | 9.8 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 Sisterdale | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7531238 | 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 1347179. 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.





