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Windcrest, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the San Antonio Northeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78239. The Survey maps it on the Longhorn quadrangle. 5,865 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 787 feet above sea level.

Windcrest within Bexar County

Population over time

2 figures

Windcrest grew from 5,364 to 5,865 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
20105,364
20205,865+501 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

178 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Windcrest between 2006 and 2013, burning about 1,063 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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/undetermined123
Debris and open burning24
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRUSTIC FOREST
16 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceNEW WORLD
11 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWETMORE FIRE
11 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas 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

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Windcrest: 7 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Cement Rock, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Perlite. 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
Capital Cement PlantCement Rock, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
ConverseClayUnknown
Judson Road Perlite PlantPerliteProducer
Shaefer Road PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cloud QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Longhorn Quarry and PlantStone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, GeneralProducer
Capitol Cement QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Kaiser Cement and Gypsum CorpLimestone, GeneralProducer
Longhorn QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerLimestone

Every working 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
Fratt0.9 miles14
Longhorn1.6 miles14
Shorts Corner2.8 miles14
Converse3.4 miles11
Kirby3.6 miles12
Wetmore4.0 miles14
Live Oak4.1 miles11
North Loop4.3 miles14

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 WindcrestAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977032The 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 1350289. 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.