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Valley View, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 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 Smithson Valley quadrangle.

Valley View within Comal County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

42 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Valley View between 2005 and 2020, burning about 82 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 burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBORDEAUX
5 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGH DRIVE FIRE
14 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDODD FIRE
3 July 2005Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 July 2009Equipment and vehicle use12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLARA FIRE
22 July 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 46 FIRE
11 July 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVIA PRINCIPALE
6 June 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceS. CRANES MILL RD.

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 Valley View: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Centex Ingram Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed QuarryLimestone, GeneralOccurrenceLimestone

Every working recorded in Comal County

Storms near this place

8 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Valley View in 8 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2022Thunderstorm WindValley View$1,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that snapped several large tree limbs in the Mission Hills Ranch subdivision northwest of New Braunfels.
April 2024HailValley View-A thunderstorm produced penny size hail along Hwy 46 between Bulverde and New Braunfels.
March 2023HailValley View-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail off of FM 3009 north of Natural Bridge Caverns.
March 2023HailValley View-A thunderstorm produced hail up to the size of golf balls in the Vintage Oaks neighborhood northwest of New Braunfels.
March 2023HailValley View-A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail along Hwy 46 northwest of New Braunfels.
April 2021HailValley View-A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail on the northwest side of New Braunfels.
June 2021Flash FloodValley View-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. A low water crossing on Schoenthal Rd. at Dry Comal Creek was flooded.
September 2010Flash FloodValley View-Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Hermine produced flash flooding which closed 10 roads across the Comal County including FM 1863 at Dry Comal Creek.

Every storm 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
Smithson Valley4.3 miles15
Startzville5.0 miles15
Buffalo Springs (historical)5.8 miles14
Second Crossing6.1 miles14
Canyon Lake Forest6.2 miles15
Bulverde East (historical)6.3 miles15
Third Crossing6.3 miles14
Westhaven6.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380706. 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.

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.