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Alamo Heights, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the San Antonio Central census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78209. It stands on Olmos Creek. The Survey maps it on the San Antonio East quadrangle. 7,357 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 801 feet above sea level.

Alamo Heights within Bexar County

On record in Alamo Heights

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Alamo Heights grew from 7,031 to 7,357 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20107,031
20207,357+326 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

13 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Alamo Heights between 2008 and 2011, burning about 108 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
2 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWETMORE FIRE
1 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBINZ ENGELMAN AND SPRINFIELD
28 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 June 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCROSSWIND
4 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1604 COMMAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bexar County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Alamo Heights: 5 producers, 3 past producers, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Ultra Pure, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Cementville QuarryLimestone, General, Limestone, Ultra PurePast ProducerLimestone
Ross Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
San Antonio Portland Cement CoClay, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
San Antonio Portland Clay PitClayProducer
AlamoStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Capitol Cement QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lime PlantLimestone, GeneralProducer
Longhorn QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerLimestone
San Antonio Prtlnd Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

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
Terrell Hills1.1 miles12
Olmos Park1.2 miles12
North Loop3.0 miles14
Salado Junction3.5 miles12
Castle Hills3.8 miles12
Fratt4.3 miles14
San Antonio4.4 miles12
Kirby4.5 miles12

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 Alamo HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982814The 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 1329300. 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.