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Leon Springs, 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 78257. It lies near Aue Hill. The Survey maps it on the Van Raub quadrangle.

Leon Springs within Bexar County

On record in Leon Springs

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 4 records

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

11 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Leon Springs between 2005 and 2011, burning about 626 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution290 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDIETZ-ELKHORN FIRE
13 August 2010Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSS COMMAND
1 August 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFAIR OAKS PKWY
2 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRALPH FAIR ROAD
14 June 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGOLDFINCH
14 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined85 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined85 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 May 2006Debris and open burning83 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHUNTRESS LANE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bexar County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Leon Springs: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium. 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
Beckman QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Beckman QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, CalciumProducer

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
Dominion0.9 miles11
Cross Mountain2.1 miles12
Scenic Oaks4.0 miles12
Beckmann4.1 miles12
Grey Forest4.4 miles13
Van Raub4.7 miles12
Fair Oaks Ranch5.6 miles12
Helotes6.8 miles13

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 Leon SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6524902The 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 1339823. 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.