Scenic Oaks, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the San Antonio Northwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78006. The Survey maps it on the Van Raub quadrangle. 10,458 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,325 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresScenic Oaks grew from 4,957 to 10,458 between 2010 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 4,957 | |
| 2020 | 10,458 | +5,501 (+111%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Van Raub quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Van Raub quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS New Braunfels quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Van Raub quadrangle1:24000
- 1992 USGS New Braunfels quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
33 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Scenic Oaks between 2006 and 2015, burning about 800 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 290 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DIETZ-ELKHORN FIRE |
| 14 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HEADWATERS RANCH |
| 28 August 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | ENTERPRIZE FIRE |
| 22 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | IH 10 W @ MILE MARKER 542 |
| 13 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SS COMMAND |
| 1 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FAIR OAKS PKWY |
| 27 July 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 30 BLK DODGE RD |
| 23 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WHITWORTH |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Van Raub | 1.7 miles | 12 | |
| Fair Oaks Ranch | 3.0 miles | 12 | |
| Leon Springs | 4.0 miles | 12 | |
| Cross Mountain | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Dominion | 4.9 miles | 11 | |
| Grey Forest | 6.6 miles | 13 | |
| Beckmann | 8.0 miles | 12 | |
| San Geronimo | 8.7 miles | 11 |
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 Scenic Oaks | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q970166 | The 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 1867564. 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.






