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One of 30 National Register listings published here for Comal County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Kabelmacher House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.
The listing
- Address. 23968 TX 46, Spring Branch, 78070
- When was it listed? May 2019
- Category. building
- Census division. Canyon Lake
- National Register reference number. 100003922 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
76 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Kabelmacher House between 2005 and 2012, burning about 378 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 27 |
| Debris and open burning | 25 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 09-0091993 |
| 16 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 15 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 09-0091695 |
| 10 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DIERKS RANCH FIRE |
| 8 August 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 09-0080897 |
| 7 August 2010 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BULVERDE CROSSING |
| 23 August 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HIGH RIDGE |
| 2 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 145 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OBST |
Storms near this property
28 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Branch, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 12 hail, 12 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2015 | Flash Flood | Spring Branch | 1 killed | A man drowned after his Nissan Sentra was swept off the road into Rebecca Creek near Spring Branch. The man went missing after he left for work around 7 am. He went missing around the 1700 block of Knoll Schwope. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Spring Branch | $100,000 | Extremely heavy rainfall associated with Erin spread into the western sections of Comal County in the evening period. General rain amounts of 3 to 4 inches were reported along and west of US281, with up to 7 inches falling near Spring Branch. Flash flooding was reported in the western part of the county, closing SH46 and FM311. |
| October 2025 | Tornado (EF1) | Spring Branch | - | A tornado touched down in Kendall County approximately four miles southwest of Kendalia traveled 9.8 miles to the east crossed into Blanco County approximately a quarter of a mile west-northwest of the intersection of Hwy 281 and FM 306 continued east a quarter of a mile to the Comal County line a tenth of mile northwest of the Hwy 281/FM 306 intersection and continued another 10.2 miles east before dissipating after crossing FM 306 near Hancock Rd. Shortly after entering Comal County, it crossed the intersection of Hwy 281 and FM 306 and knocked down five electrical poles and one light pole near a gas station at the intersection. This damage was rated EF-1 (wind speed up to 110 mph). The tornado continued east-southeastward into portions of the Indian Hill subdivision causing sporadic tree, fence, and shingle damage and then east, paralleling FM 306. The tornado crossed Tanglewood Trail, impacting several blocks with concentrated tree damage and shingle damage. Damage through this area was estimated at EF-1 (90 mph). The tornado continued east, through northern areas of Mystic Shores, weakening and producing sporadic tree damage. Farther east, the tornado crossed FM 306 near Hancock Rd. and dissipated shortly thereafter. In Kendall County it produced EF-0 damage. The path width was 300 yards. |
| July 2025 | Flash Flood | Spring Branch | - | Slow-moving thunderstorms moved across Comal County between 8 AM and 11 AM producing 2-6 inches of rain with the highest totals occurring along the Guadalupe River below Canyon Lake. Evacuations on River Road along the Guadalupe River began by 10 AM. At least two unoccupied RVs along River Road were swept into the river. At least a dozen low water crossings were closed west of New Braunfels, with at least three water rescues occurring in that area. On the north side of Canyon Lake, one home flooded with about 10 inches of water due to poor drainage and runoff. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Spring Branch | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Spring Branch. |
| August 2021 | Flash Flood | Spring Branch | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. Spring Branch Rd. at Rittimann Rd. was flooded by the Spring Branch. |
| August 2021 | Flash Flood | Spring Branch | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. Cypress Cove Rd. was flooded by Rebecca Creek northeast of Spring Branch. |
| October 2021 | Flash Flood | Spring Branch | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. Low water crossings along Swine and Ahern Creeks near Spring Branch. Rainfall totals in Spring Branch were 6.50 inches. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Branch | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that blew down some four to five inch diameter tree limbs. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Branch | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Spring Branch | - | Highway 281 was closed at the River Crossing Boulevard intersection due to several inches of water reportedly over the roadway. Also, flooding of a low water crossing on Rolling Creek Road was closed due to high water on the opposite side of the highway. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Spring Branch | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding. There was 1.2 feet of water over Rolling Creek Rd. at Fawn Ln. and several other roads closed around the county. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Spring Branch | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding requiring water rescues in the Bulverde and Spring Branch areas. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Spring Branch | - | A thunderstorm produced hail the largest of which was two inches in diameter, but was mostly pea size. |
| May 2013 | Flash Flood | Spring Branch | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding. Rainfall totals reported by CoCoRAHS observers were up to 8.93 inches. This rain flooded several roads in western and central Comal County. There was also one water rescue. |
| February 2009 | Hail | Spring Branch | - | A storm chaser reported hail ranging from marble to ping pong size near Spring Branch. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Spring Branch | - | Thunderstorms produced from 2 to 3 inches of rain over Comal County, with highest totals near 5 inches just east of Spring Branch. FM311, FM3159, and FM2722 were closed due to flash flooding. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Spring Branch | - | Thunderstorms produced 2 to 3 inches of rain near midnight over southern Comal County, closing FM311 and FM1863 due to high water. |
| March 1993 | Hail | Spring Branch | - | A co-op observer reported dime-size hail south of Spring Branch. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Spring Branch | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Spring Branch | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Spring Branch | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Spring Branch | - | no account filed |
| November 2006 | Hail | Spring Branch | - | no account filed |
| March 2001 | Hail | Spring Branch | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Spring Branch | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Hail | Spring Branch | - | no account filed |
| March 1997 | Hail | Spring Branch | - | 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.
Listed places nearby
3 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anhalt Hall | 1.2 miles | 2018 | |
| Honey Creek Historic District | 3.9 miles | 2018 | |
| Kappelmann-Mayer Ranch | 6.1 miles | 2020 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100003922 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.