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Sayers, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the San Antonio East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78263. The Survey maps it on the Elmendorf quadrangle.

Sayers 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

45 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Sayers between 2006 and 2015, burning about 524 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
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use10
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 September 2015Debris and open burning2.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROSEWOOD
23 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 87E
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTUART ROAD
8 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8389 E LOOP 1604
15 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSZFD121190
13 August 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 87E FIRE
16 July 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 87 COMMAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bexar County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sayers: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Cantu PitsClayPast ProducerClay

Every working recorded in Bexar County

Storms near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sayers in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 2 hail, 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
July 2006Thunderstorm WindSayers$200,000Severe thunderstorms winds rolled over two mobile homes and blew down trees and power lines northwest of Sayers.
April 2025HailSayers-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail near Sayers.
May 2021HailSayers-A thunderstorm produced 5.5 inch hail near Sayers and the China Grove area on the east side of San Antonio.

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
Lone Oak2.4 miles10
Adkins3.0 miles10
China Grove3.3 miles11
Boldtville3.9 miles11
Martinez4.0 miles11
Saint Hedwig5.5 miles10
Hilltop7.2 miles12
Kirby8.0 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1376028. 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.