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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.

Sisterdale within Kendall County

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

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

46 since 2006

Regional 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 burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
30 September 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service473 BRUSH OUT
27 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2009Debris and open burning75 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceN/A
30 August 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceZOELLER 333
23 August 2009Natural20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSISTERDALE
15 August 2018Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service925 FM473 BURN
15 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOSHUA CREEK FIRE
13 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service635 FM 1376

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kendall County

Storms near this place

19 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1998HailSisterdale$30,000Hail broke out windows in buildings.
September 1997Thunderstorm WindSisterdale$30,000no account filed
September 2011Thunderstorm WindSisterdale$20,000A 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 2006HailSisterdale$10,000Hail as large as softballs smashed the windshield and dented the body of a DPS vehicle near Sisterdale.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindSisterdale$5,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that blew down numerous trees on the property of the Sisterdale COOP observer.
May 2024HailSisterdale-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail southeast of Sisterdale.
May 2020HailSisterdale-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail near Sisterdale. Report was from mPING.
May 2020HailSisterdale-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Sisterdale.
May 2012HailSisterdale-A thunderstorm produced nickel to quarter size hail and wind gusts estimated at 50 mph.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindSisterdale-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph near Sisterdale.
July 2007Flash FloodSisterdale-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 2007Flash FloodSisterdale-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 2007Flash FloodSisterdale-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 2007Flash FloodSisterdale-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 1997Tornado (F0)Sisterdale-Amateur Radio spotters observed a small , short-lived tornado near Sisterdale.
May 2012HailSisterdale-no account filed
May 2012HailSisterdale-no account filed
May 2005HailSisterdale-no account filed
June 2003HailSisterdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kendall 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
Waring4.6 miles10
Welfare5.0 miles10
Ammans Crossing6.0 miles10
Walnut Grove7.3 miles12
Nelson City7.7 miles10
Kreutzberg7.9 miles12
Oberly Crossing7.9 miles10
Comfort9.8 miles10

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 SisterdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7531238The 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.