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Olmos Park, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the San Antonio Central census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78212. It stands on Olmos Creek. The Survey maps it on the San Antonio East quadrangle. 2,180 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 807 feet above sea level.

Olmos Park within Bexar County

Population over time

3 figures

Olmos Park fell from 2,343 to 2,180 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
20002,343
20102,237-106 (-5%)
20202,180-57 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Olmos Park between 2008 and 2011, burning about 8 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
2 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH 16/ S. ZARZAMORA
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
4 March 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 February 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.5 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 Olmos Park: 7 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Limestone, Ultra Pure. 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
Affiliated Aggregates QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, GeneralProducer
Cementville QuarryLimestone, General, Limestone, Ultra PurePast ProducerLimestone
Ross Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
San Antonio Portland Cement CoClay, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
San Antonio Portland Clay PitClayProducer
Lime PlantLimestone, GeneralProducer
AlamoStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Capitol Cement QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Eastside Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
San Antonio Prtlnd Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Bexar County

Storms near this place

11 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olmos Park in 11 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 6 flash flood, 5 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
May 2025Flash FloodOlmos Park-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing several low water crossings in north-central San Antonio.
May 2020HailOlmos Park-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail at Joint Base San Antonio Ft. Sam Houston.
September 2018Flash FloodOlmos Park-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing 43 roads across the city of San Antonio.
September 2016Flash FloodOlmos Park-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding stranding a commercial garbage truck in approximately three and a half feet of water near the intersection of Holbrook Ln. and Aina Ln. along Salado Creek in northeastern San Antonio. The truck driver was rescued by firefighters.
April 2016HailOlmos Park-A thunderstorm produced three inch hail near Austin Hwy. and N. New Braunfels Ave. in Alamo Heights.
May 2016Flash FloodOlmos Park-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing N. Vandiver Rd. at Irvington in northern San Antonio.
June 2015Flash FloodOlmos Park-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding along Salado Creek in San Antonio. The fire department reported a water rescue at Holbrook Rd. and Rittiman Rd.
March 2013HailOlmos Park-A thunderstorm produced hail for ten minutes. The largest was golf ball size.
February 2012Flash FloodOlmos Park-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain which caused flash flooding and closed North Vandiver and Eisenhauer Roads in San Antonio.
April 2016HailOlmos Park-no account filed
May 2006HailOlmos Park-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
Alamo Heights1.2 miles12
Terrell Hills2.0 miles12
Castle Hills3.4 miles12
Balcones Heights3.5 miles12
North Loop3.7 miles14
San Antonio3.8 miles12
Salado Junction4.2 miles12
Robards4.8 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 Olmos ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q976917The 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 1343270. 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.