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Airport City, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the San Antonio Northeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78109. The Survey maps it on the Schertz quadrangle.

Airport City within Bexar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

248 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 248 fires within 5 miles of Airport City between 2006 and 2016, burning about 1,118 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined175
Debris and open burning34
Equipment and vehicle use14
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCBFD1100798
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSZFD111324
8 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSZFD111302
3 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSZFD131529
20 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bexar County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Airport City: 10 producers, 1 unknown. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Perlite, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
ConverseClayUnknown
Judson Road Perlite PlantPerliteProducer
Beck Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Beck Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cibola PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Gem Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Gem Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Schaffer Road PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Shaefer Road PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Bexar 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
Universal City1.2 miles11
Converse1.3 miles11
Live Oak2.9 miles11
Selma3.6 miles11
Windcrest4.4 miles14
Luxello4.8 miles11
Fratt5.2 miles14
Longhorn5.3 miles14

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 Airport CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122559945The 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 1329285. 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.

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.