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Kentwood Manor, Texas

14 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 78232. It stands on East Elm Creek. The Survey maps it on the Longhorn quadrangle.

Kentwood Manor within Bexar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

16 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Kentwood Manor between 2006 and 2011, burning about 361 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
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
5 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use120 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTONE OAK FIRE
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
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 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Kentwood Manor: 10 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Cement Rock. 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
1604 Cement Plant and QuarryCement Rock, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cloud QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Bulverde Road QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Olmos Rock Products CorpStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
San Pedro Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bulverde Road QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Capitol Cement QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Dean Word Co Ackerman QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducer
Midwestern QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
San Pedro QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

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
Hollywood Park1.3 miles14
Hill Country Village1.9 miles14
Wetmore3.3 miles14
Shorts Corner4.4 miles14
Shavano Park4.9 miles12
North Loop4.9 miles14
Longhorn5.7 miles14
Robards5.9 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.

Wikidata item Q122557963The 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 1339044. 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.