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Walnut Grove, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Boerne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78006. It lies near Sabinas Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Boerne quadrangle.

Walnut Grove within Kendall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

84 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Walnut Grove between 2006 and 2019, burning about 406 acres in total. 1 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 burning44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use14
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1

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 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceINTERSTATE 10 533
27 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePOEHNERT RD
20 September 2006Debris and open burning35 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMILE MARKER 533
5 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMESQUITE ASH FIRE
5 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH 10 W @ MM 536-537
30 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH 10 W @ 535
19 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFENCE CUTTING FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Kreutzberg3.2 miles12
Nelson City3.3 miles10
Ammans Crossing3.8 miles10
Welfare4.6 miles10
Boerne5.1 miles12
Waring6.7 miles10
Sisterdale7.3 miles10
Oberly Crossing8.6 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380737. 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.