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Bergs Mill, 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 78223. It stands on Sixmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Southton quadrangle.

Bergs Mill within Bexar County

On record in Bergs Mill

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 within a mile 4 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Bergs Mill between 1994 and 2018, burning about 38 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
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 2006Equipment and vehicle use3.2 acresSan Antonio Missions National Historic ParkESPADA DAM FIRE
9 August 2012Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
28 August 2012Naturalunder an acreSan Antonio Missions National Historic ParkSAN JUAN
26 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSan Antonio Missions National Historic ParkESPADA ACEQUIA
15 August 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreSan Antonio Missions National Historic ParkSAN JUAN
22 July 2008Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 June 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
12 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service281 GRASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bexar County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bergs Mill: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Vermiculite, Limestone, General. 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
Construction Products DivisionVermiculiteProducer
Unnamed PitClayProducerSedimentary
Unnamed QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Bexar County

Storms near this place

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bergs Mill in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2026: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2026FloodBergs Mill-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flooding in southeastern San Antonio. A few low water crossings were closed in the vicinity of the intersection of I-37 and I-410.
May 2023Flash FloodBergs Mill-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. Bexar Floods reported flooding on Old Corpus Christi Rd. near Salado Creek in southern San Antonio.
August 2018Flash FloodBergs Mill-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing several roads in southern San Antonio. Road closures were reported on the bexarflood.org website.
November 2014Thunderstorm WindBergs Mill-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 58 mph that blew down several two inch diameter tree limbs.

Every storm 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
Southton3.3 miles12
Terrell Wells3.3 miles13
Hilltop3.4 miles12
San Jose4.1 miles13
Buena Vista4.4 miles12
Columbia Heights4.6 miles13
Boldtville5.3 miles11
Palo Alto Park5.3 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1351909. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.