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Waring, 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 78074. It lies near Coffee Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Waring quadrangle. It stands 1,345 feet above sea level.

Waring within Kendall County

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

87 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Waring between 2006 and 2020, burning about 500 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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 burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
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
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest Service609 FM 289
30 September 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service473 BRUSH OUT
3 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service289 TRUCK/GRASS SPREAD
29 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH 10 WB 528 MM
23 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePOEHNERT RD
19 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1621 BURN PILE
16 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1621 ELECTRICAL FIRE
5 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMESQUITE ASH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kendall County

Storms near this place

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waring in 6 storm reports between 2003 and 2016: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2003Thunderstorm WindWaring1 hurt, $50,000The east-west oriented line of thunderstorms associated with the cold front continued to move southward through Blanco County. As it moved into the southern part of the county, it produced a downburst between Warning and Sisterdale that knocked over many trees. One person was injured when struck by debris.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindWaring$20,000Thunderstorms produced strong winds which blew down trees and damaged some roofs.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindWaring$2,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 50 mph which knocked down several trees.
June 2016Flash FloodWaring-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing multiple low water crossings in and around Waring.
April 2007HailWaring-no account filed
March 2007HailWaring-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
Welfare2.2 miles10
Sisterdale4.6 miles10
Nelson City5.1 miles10
Comfort5.5 miles10
Walnut Grove6.7 miles12
Ammans Crossing8.0 miles10
Kreutzberg9.1 miles12
Boerne11.4 miles12

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 WaringAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7969433The 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 1349492. 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.