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Luxello, 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. The Survey maps it on the Schertz quadrangle.

Luxello within Bexar County

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

66 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Luxello between 2005 and 2018, burning about 252 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/undetermined50
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSZFD111324
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSZFD111302
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWEIDERSTEIN FIRE
15 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSZFD121381
9 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSZFD141296
5 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCBFD130703
4 August 2015Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
28 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSZFD111255

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bexar County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Luxello: 15 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Perlite. 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
Judson Road Perlite PlantPerliteProducer
Barrett Base QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gifford Hill Ogden QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dean Word Co Ackerman QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducer
Midwestern QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Ogden QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Unnamed QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducer1973
Beck Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Beck Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Bexar County

Storms near this place

10 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Luxello in 10 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 4 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. The reports record 1 death. 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 2010Flash FloodLuxello1 killedHeavy rain from Tropical Storm Hermine produced flash flooding of Cibolo Creek along the Bexar Comal county border resulting in one death. A man was killed when his vehicle was swept off FM1863 at the low water crossing approximately one quarter mile east of Beck Road. After successfully driving through another flooded crossing a few moments earlier, he entered the flood waters and was swept away.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindLuxello$100,000An NWS Storm Survey Team determined thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 mph caused damage to an area one mile wide and four miles long in northeastern San Antonio and adjacent parts of Bexar County outside the city limit to Bracken in Comal County. The damage was to trees, fences, and power lines.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindLuxello$100,000An NWS Storm Survey Team determined thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 mph caused damage to an area one mile wide and four miles long in northeastern San Antonio and adjacent parts of Bexar County outside the city limit to near the Comal County line. The damage was to trees, fences, and power lines.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindLuxello$5,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that knocked down power lines near the intersection of FM 1863 and Smithson Valley Rd. in Bulverde.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindLuxello$2,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that knocked down trees in northeastern San Antonio.
April 2024HailLuxello-A thunderstorm produced two inch diameter hail along Smithson Valley Rd. in northern Bexar County.
June 2023HailLuxello-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail at Rolling Meadows Elementary School in northeastern San Antonio.
March 2018Flash FloodLuxello-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding requiring a water rescue at Loop 1604 and Green Mountain Rd. on the far northeast side of San Antonio.
May 2015Flash FloodLuxello-Farm to market road 1863 was closed in both directions due to water over the roadway. Information provided by www.drivetexas.org.
June 2015Flash FloodLuxello-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding in northeast San Antonio. The fire department reported a water evacuation at 6900 N. Loop 1604 near Nacogdoches Rd.

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
Selma1.3 miles11
Live Oak2.8 miles11
Universal City3.9 miles11
Airport City4.8 miles11
Converse5.8 miles11
Wetmore6.1 miles14
Shorts Corner6.3 miles14
Longhorn6.7 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.

Wikidata item Q122558997The 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 1340745. 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.