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One of 161 National Register listings published here for Bexar County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Wedgwood, The
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 structuress, 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 6701 Blanco Rd., Castle Hills, 78216
- When was it listed? February 2017
- Category. building
- Census division. San Antonio Central
- Architectural style. International Style
- National Register reference number. 100000669 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
21 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Wedgwood, The between 2006 and 2011, burning about 242 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 burning | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 11 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WETMORE FIRE |
| 1 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 28 July 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 20 June 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1604 COMMAND |
| 7 May 2008 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 1 May 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 12 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Wedgwood, The: 9 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Limestone, Ultra Pure, Clay, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cementville Quarry | Limestone, General, Limestone, Ultra Pure | Past Producer | Limestone | |
| Huebner Road Quarry | Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Ross Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Gravel, Sand | |
| San Antonio Portland Cement Co | Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| San Antonio Portland Clay Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Huebner Quarry | Limestone, General | Producer | Limestone | |
| Lime Plant | Limestone, General | Producer | ||
| Alamo | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Capitol Cement Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Eastside Quarry & Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
8 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Castle Hills, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 4 flash flood, 4 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2024 | Hail | Castle Hills | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail at the intersection of Blanco Rd. and Fresno St. in San Antonio. |
| May 2020 | Flash Flood | Castle Hills | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. Bexar County Emergency Management reported multiple high water rescues. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Castle Hills | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in the Los Angeles Heights section of San Antonio. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Castle Hills | - | Heavy rain from Tropical storm Bill caused flash flooding closing Fresno at the I-10 Frontage Rd. along Martinez Creek in northwest San Antonio. |
| May 2014 | Flash Flood | Castle Hills | - | Several roads were closed across the south and north sides of San Antonio including the lower level of Interstate 35. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Castle Hills | - | Scattered showers and thunderstorms over Kendall, Comal and Bexar Counties produced general 2-3 inch rains, with up to 5 inches near Hill Country Village. West Avenue and Blanco Road were closed to due flash flooding. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Castle Hills | - | no account filed |
| March 2013 | Hail | Castle Hills | - | no account filed |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Fountain at Alamo Cement Company | 2.2 miles | 2005 |
 | Fence at Alamo Cement Company | 2.2 miles | 2005 |
 | Brackenridge Park | 2.2 miles | 2011 |
 | Stations of the Cross and Grotto at the Shrine of St. Anthony de Padua | 2.5 miles | 2004 |
 | Buckeye Park Gate | 2.7 miles | 2004 |
| Light House | 3.6 miles | 2011 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100000669 in Record Group 79. |
| Bexar County | All 161 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- 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.