BlockFrom the record
One of 30 National Register listings published here for Comal County · listed in 2017 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Fischer Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Fischer Store Rd., FM 32, Patriotic & Let's Roll Drs., Fischer, 78623
- When was it listed? June 2017
- Category. district
- Census division. Canyon Lake
- National Register reference number. 100001222 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
58 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Fischer Historic District between 2000 and 2020, burning about 827 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 burning | 35 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 35 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BUFFALO GULCH |
| 7 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 28 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 32 |
| 10 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 1 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 31 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CANYON SHORES |
| 28 August 2000 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH BRANCH - 33 |
| 24 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MAIL ROUTE FIRE |
Storms near this property
11 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fischer, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 7 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2000 | Hail | Fischer | $100,000 | The hail was reported to have damaged several homes, with even greater damage to vehicles. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fischer | $2,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that blew over a tree in Fischer. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fischer | $2,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that knocked down numerous large trees at a house off Hwy 32 near Fischer. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fischer | $2,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 58 mph that blew over several large Oak trees. |
| June 2025 | Flash Flood | Fischer | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain leading to flash flooding. The Comal County Sheriff reported several low water crossings flooded. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Fischer | - | A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail in Fischer. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Fischer | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Fischer | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Fischer | - | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Hail | Fischer | - | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Hail | Fischer | - | no account filed |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100001222 in Record Group 79. |
| Comal County | All 30 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- 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.