Boerne, Texas Boerne, Texas Main Street in Boerne, Texas ca 1890-1900 Main Street in Boerne, Texas ca 1890-1900 Location of Boerne, Texas Location of Boerne, Texas Boerne (/ b rni/ burn-ee) is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Kendall County, Texas, United States, inside the Texas Hill Country.
Boerne was titled in honor of a Jewish-German author and publicist.
The populace of Boerne was 10,471 at the 2010 census.
Supreme Court case City of Boerne v.
Founded in 1849 as Tusculum, the name was changed to Boerne when the town was platted in 1852.
Boerne is part of the San Antonio New Braunfels Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Boerne is the home of the Guadalupe Valley Poetry Celebration, a county-wide poetry festival that benefits the Boerne Public Library.
There are many historic structures in Boerne Boerne came into being as an offshoot of the Texas Hill Country Free Thinker Latin Settlements, resulting from the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states.
Many of the pioneers from these communities moved to Sisterdale, Boerne and Comfort. In 1849, a group of Free Thinker German colonists from Bettina camped on the north side of Cibolo Creek, about a mile west of the site of present Boerne.
In 1852, John James and Gustav Theissen, who helped settle Sisterdale, platted the townsite, retitled it with respect to German author Karl Ludwig Borne, with the Anglicized spelling of Boerne.
Boerne's robust surrounding encouraged the community resort industry.
Karl Degener organized the Boerne Gesang Verein (singing club) and the Boerne Village Band in 1860.
The family and descendants of Sisterdale resident Baron Ottomar von Behr have encompassed three generations of administrators of the Boerne Village Band, and four generations of musicians. The band is billed as "Oldest Continuously Organized German Band in the World outside Germany", and in 1998 the Federal Republic of Germany recognized the Boerne Village Band for its donation to the German tradition in Texas and America.
Some of the early pioneer in Boerne migrated from the collapsed Fisher-Miller Land Grant experimental colonies of the Darmstadt Society of Forty.
Boerne is positioned at 29 47 40 N 98 43 53 WCoordinates: 29 47 40 N 98 43 53 W. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.1 square miles (16 km2), of which 5.8 square miles (15 km2) is territory and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2) (4.74%) is water.
Two of Texas' seven show caves are positioned in Boerne: Cave Without a Name and Cascade Caverns.
Boerne has a typical central Texas humid subtropical climate (Koppen Cfa) with hot, incessantly humid summers and winters that average mild, but vary from hot to cold.
Temperatures at or below 0 F or 17.8 C have occurred only three times on record: December 22, 1929, January 31, 1949 and February 2, 1951, with the second being the coldest at 4 F or 20 C.
In contrast to these cold spells, February 20 and 21 1986 both reached 94 F (34.4 C), February 21 to 24, 1996 saw four successive afternoons over 93 F (33.9 C), and January 1943 had three days reach 86 F or 30 C. The absolute hottest temperature has been 112 F or 44.4 C on August 23, 1925.
The wettest days in Boerne have been October 2, 1913 with 9.04 inches (229.6 mm) and June 22, 1997 with 8.93 inches (226.8 mm).
Winter precipitation usually occurs via Pacific storms redeveloping over the Gulf of Mexico and directing a moist southeasterly flow: in the extreme case of the winter of 1991/1992 14.42 inches or 366.3 millimetres fell between December 19 and 22 and a total of 29.44 inches (747.8 mm) for the three winter months; however four years later the whole winter saw no more than 0.96 inches (24.4 mm).
Overall the wettest calendar year has been 1992 with 64.17 inches (1,629.9 mm) and the driest 1954 with 10.29 inches (261.4 mm), although between July 1991 and June 1992 68.13 inches (1,730.5 mm) was recorded.
Climate data for Boerne, Texas (1971 to 2000; extremes since 1897) Boerne Stage Airport Boerne, Texas is home to two enhance high schools and one private high school.
Students positioned south of Texas State Highway 46 attend Boerne Samuel V.
Champion High School, a 5 - A high school titled after a well liked administrator for Boerne Independent School District.
Champion High School is attended by students that matriculate from Boerne Middle School-South. Students zoned north of Texas Highway 46 attend Boerne High School.
A 4 - A enhance high school, Boerne High School is lesser than its peer, Samuel V.
Boerne HS is a well regarded enhance high school and attended by students that come from Boerne Middle School-North. Boerne is also home to the Geneva School of Boerne.
Unlike Boerne Champion and Boerne High School, Geneva is a private high school with an annual tuition of $11,235.
Geneva competes in the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools at the 4 - A level. Created in the early 2010s, the Hill Country Mile is a 1.1 mile long walking path following River Road Park and historic Main Street. The path was created as a catalyst to unify and preserve the rich cultural identity of downtown Boerne.
The center was first opened to the enhance on Earth Day in 1990 after founder Carolyn Chipman Evans urged the City of Boerne to preserve marshland around Boerne City Park.
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Brister, Louis E.: Leiningen, Prince Carl from the Handbook of Texas Online.
Texas State Historical Association Brister, Louis E.: Adelsverein from the Handbook of Texas Online.
Texas State Historical Association "Boerne Postmasters".
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Boerne and the Railroad https://txtransportationmuseum.org/history-boerne.php "Boerne Village Band".
Texas Music History Online.
Texas Music History Online von Behr musicians from the Handbook of Texas Online.
Texas State Historical Association "Boerne Village Band".
Texas Music History Online "Climatography of the United States No.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Boerne Independent School District: Boerne-Samuel V.
"Boerne Independent School District: Boerne High School".
Visit Boerne.
Boerne Convention & Visitor's Bureau.
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City of Boerne Boerne Chamber of Commerce Boerne Berges Fest Boerne Convention & Visitors Bureau Boerne Public Library Boerne from the Handbook of Texas Online Municipalities and communities of Kendall County, Texas, United States State of Texas County seats of Texas
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