Van Raub, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the San Antonio North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78015. The Survey maps it on the Van Raub quadrangle.

Van Raub within Bexar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1953 USGS Van Raub quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Van Raub quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS New Braunfels quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Van Raub quadrangle1:24000
1992 USGS New Braunfels quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

35 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Van Raub between 2006 and 2015, burning about 741 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Debris and open burning	13
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Natural	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	290 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DIETZ-ELKHORN FIRE
14 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	HEADWATERS RANCH
28 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	ENTERPRIZE FIRE
22 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	IH 10 W @ MILE MARKER 542
1 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FAIR OAKS PKWY
24 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	W. AMMANN
17 July 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
16 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ANAUA SPRINGS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bexar 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
Fair Oaks Ranch	1.3 miles	12
Scenic Oaks	1.7 miles	12
Leon Springs	4.7 miles	12
Dominion	5.4 miles	11
Cross Mountain	5.8 miles	12
Grey Forest	8.0 miles	13
Beckmann	8.8 miles	12
Timberwood Park	9.6 miles	11

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.

Wikidata item Q122561163

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 1379205. 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.