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Castle Hills, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the San Antonio North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78213. The Survey maps it on the Castle Hills quadrangle. 3,978 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 840 feet above sea level.

Castle Hills within Bexar County

On record in Castle Hills

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Castle Hills fell from 4,116 to 3,978 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
20104,116
20203,978-138 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

25 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Castle Hills between 2006 and 2011, burning about 250 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 July 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
7 May 2008Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 May 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas 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 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Castle Hills: 9 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, 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
Huebner Road QuarryLimestone, General, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ross Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
San Antonio Portland Cement CoClay, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
San Antonio Portland Clay PitClayProducer
Huebner QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Lime PlantLimestone, GeneralProducer
AlamoStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Capitol Cement QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Eastside Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Bexar County

Storms near this place

8 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Castle Hills in 8 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 4 flash flood, 4 hail. 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
April 2024HailCastle Hills-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail at the intersection of Blanco Rd. and Fresno St. in San Antonio.
May 2020Flash FloodCastle Hills-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. Bexar County Emergency Management reported multiple high water rescues.
June 2019HailCastle Hills-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in the Los Angeles Heights section of San Antonio.
June 2015Flash FloodCastle Hills-Heavy rain from Tropical storm Bill caused flash flooding closing Fresno at the I-10 Frontage Rd. along Martinez Creek in northwest San Antonio.
May 2014Flash FloodCastle Hills-Several roads were closed across the south and north sides of San Antonio including the lower level of Interstate 35.
July 2007Flash FloodCastle Hills-Scattered showers and thunderstorms over Kendall, Comal and Bexar Counties produced general 2-3 inch rains, with up to 5 inches near Hill Country Village. West Avenue and Blanco Road were closed to due flash flooding.
May 2021HailCastle Hills-no account filed
March 2013HailCastle Hills-no account filed

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
Robards1.5 miles12
North Loop3.0 miles14
Balcones Heights3.1 miles12
Olmos Park3.4 miles12
Alamo Heights3.8 miles12
Hill Country Village4.3 miles14
Oakland Estates4.5 miles12
Shavano Park4.7 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 Castle HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q665285The 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 1332298. 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.