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Live Oak, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the San Antonio Northeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78233. The Survey maps it on the Schertz quadrangle. 15,781 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 912 feet above sea level.

Live Oak within Bexar County

Population over time

3 figures

Live Oak grew from 9,156 to 15,781 between 2000 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
20009,156
201013,131+3,975 (+43%)
202015,781+2,650 (+20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

164 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Live Oak between 2006 and 2016, burning about 412 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined112
Debris and open burning26
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSZFD111324
7 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSZFD111302
19 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRUSTIC FOREST
16 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceNEW WORLD
15 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSZFD121381

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bexar County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Live Oak: 15 producers, 1 unknown. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Cement Rock, 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
1604 Cement Plant and QuarryCement Rock, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Capital Cement PlantCement Rock, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
ConverseClayUnknown
Judson Road Perlite PlantPerliteProducer
Longhorn Quarry and PlantStone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, GeneralProducer
Barrett Base QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dean Word Co Ackerman QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducer
Kaiser Cement and Gypsum CorpLimestone, GeneralProducer
Midwestern QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Unnamed QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducer1973

Every working recorded in Bexar County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Live Oak in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 1996Thunderstorm WindLive Oak$3,000no 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
Selma2.1 miles11
Universal City2.7 miles11
Luxello2.8 miles11
Airport City2.9 miles11
Converse3.4 miles11
Shorts Corner4.1 miles14
Windcrest4.1 miles14
Longhorn4.2 miles14

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 Live OakAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981467The 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 1340230. 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.