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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.

Scenic Oaks within Bexar County

Population over time

2 figures

Scenic 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.

YearPeople Change
20104,957
202010,458+5,501 (+111%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

33 since 2006

Regional 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/undetermined14
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Natural1

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
6 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution290 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDIETZ-ELKHORN FIRE
14 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHEADWATERS RANCH
28 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceENTERPRIZE FIRE
22 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH 10 W @ MILE MARKER 542
13 August 2010Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSS COMMAND
1 August 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFAIR OAKS PKWY
27 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service30 BLK DODGE RD
23 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWHITWORTH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Van Raub1.7 miles12
Fair Oaks Ranch3.0 miles12
Leon Springs4.0 miles12
Cross Mountain4.6 miles12
Dominion4.9 miles11
Grey Forest6.6 miles13
Beckmann8.0 miles12
San Geronimo8.7 miles11

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 OaksAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q970166The 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.