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San Geronimo, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the San Antonio Northwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78023. It lies near Anton Hollow. The Survey maps it on the San Geronimo quadrangle.

San Geronimo within Bexar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

11 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of San Geronimo between 2006 and 2017, burning about 122 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
24 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 2801 E
12 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service20171671
3 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 16
2 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCEPEDA
1 May 2017Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service20170775
25 February 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRICEWOOD TREE FIRE
8 October 2006Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 October 2006Debris and open burning50 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of San Geronimo: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Helotes QuarryLimestone, General, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducerLimestone
Helotes QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Bexar County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Geronimo in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 1 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 2025HailSan Geronimo-A thunderstorm produced tennis ball size hail northwest of Government Canyon State Natural Area.
November 2024Flash FloodSan Geronimo-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing Haby Ln. and Bandera Rd. along San Geronimo Creek.
May 2015Flash FloodSan Geronimo-Several road closures were reported across the city of San Antonio. Road closures included Stahl Road, Shannon Lee Road, Leslie Road, Hausmann Road South, and Contour Drive.

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
Grey Forest6.0 miles13
Helotes6.3 miles13
Cross Mountain7.3 miles12
Scenic Oaks8.7 miles12
Leon Springs9.2 miles12
Dominion9.7 miles11
Beckmann10.2 miles12
Van Raub10.4 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1346349. 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.