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One of 30 National Register listings published here for Comal County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Saint Joseph's Chapel
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 6400 FM 482, Schertz, 78132
- When was it listed? August 2014
- Category. building
- Census division. New Braunfels
- National Register reference number. 14000472 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
84 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Saint Joseph's Chapel between 2005 and 2020, burning about 3,560 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 | 50 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | NOV-30 |
| 5 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | NOV-62 |
| 3 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WEIDERSTEIN FIRE |
| 17 September 2019 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 3500 IH 35 S FIRE |
| 15 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SZFD121381 |
| 14 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 3183 IH 35 S FIRE |
| 14 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SZFD111369 |
| 13 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WESTON |
Mines and quarries near this property
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Saint Joseph's Chapel: 7 producers, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beck Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Brauntex Materials | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Comal | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| General Portland Cement Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Gifford Hill Ogden Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| New Braunfels Quarry & Plant | Limestone, General | Producer | ||
| New Braunfels Quarry & Plant No.265 | Limestone, General | Producer | ||
| Ogden Quarry | Limestone, General | Producer | Limestone | |
| Unnamed Quarry | Limestone, General | Producer | Sedimentary |
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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mission Valley School and Teacherage | 5.2 miles | 2020 | |
 | Arnold-Rauch-Brandt Homestead | 5.6 miles | 2018 |
| Walzem Homestead | 5.8 miles | 2018 | |
| Pape-Borchers Homestead | 6.1 miles | 2020 | |
 | Holz-Forshage-Krueger Building | 6.6 miles | 1997 |
 | Comal Power Plant | 6.7 miles | 2004 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 14000472 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.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.