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Uhland, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1985. It lies in ZIP code area 78640. The Survey maps it on the Uhland quadrangle.

Uhland within Caldwell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

73 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Uhland between 1998 and 2020, burning about 813 acres in total. None 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 burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use12
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
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
23 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTHIRD ST
22 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6016 2720
21 September 2011Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROCKY ROAD
14 September 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2485 SCHUELKE RD
26 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2720
15 August 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSANTA FE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caldwell County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Uhland in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2019: 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
April 2019HailUhland-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Uhland.
August 2017Flash FloodUhland-Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Harvey produced flash flooding leading to a swift water rescue near Misty Ln. at FM 2720 near Uhland.
October 2015Flash FloodUhland-Additional rains in the predawn hours caused additional flooding across Caldwell County and surrounding counties. Many roads were flooded and impassable.

Every storm recorded in Caldwell 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
Niederwald4.7 miles18
Maxwell5.3 miles13
Mendoza6.2 miles18
Reedville6.3 miles13
Lockhart7.9 miles15
Martindale8.3 miles13
Lytton Springs9.8 miles17
Dale11.9 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1349016. 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.