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Balcones Heights, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the San Antonio Central census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78201. The Survey maps it on the San Antonio West quadrangle. 2,746 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 830 feet above sea level.

Balcones Heights within Bexar County

Population over time

2 figures

Balcones Heights fell from 2,941 to 2,746 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
20102,941
20202,746-195 (-7%)

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

10 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Balcones Heights between 2006 and 2014, burning about 14 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
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
3 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH 16/ S. ZARZAMORA
20 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1604 COMMAND
5 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRISSOM ROAD
4 March 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 March 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBANDERA PASS
16 March 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 March 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 February 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRASH FIRE

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 Balcones Heights: 8 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Limestone, Ultra Pure. 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
Affiliated Aggregates QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, GeneralProducer
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
Lime PlantLimestone, GeneralProducer
AlamoStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Capitol Cement QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Eastside Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
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
Castle Hills3.1 miles12
Robards3.4 miles12
Olmos Park3.5 miles12
Leon Valley3.6 miles12
Oakland Estates4.3 miles12
Alamo Heights4.6 miles12
San Antonio5.4 miles12
Terrell Hills5.4 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 Balcones HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q975167The 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 1329967. 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.