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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
Selma Stagecoach Stop and Post Office
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 9374 Valhalla, Selma, 78154
- When was it listed? June 2017
- Category. building
- Census division. San Antonio Northeast
- National Register reference number. 100001252 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
100 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Selma Stagecoach Stop and Post Office between 2005 and 2018, burning about 368 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 74 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SZFD111324 |
| 5 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SZFD111302 |
| 3 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WEIDERSTEIN FIRE |
| 15 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SZFD121381 |
| 9 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SZFD141296 |
| 5 August 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CBFD130703 |
| 4 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSH FIRE |
| 28 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SZFD111255 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 14 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Selma Stagecoach Stop and Post Office: 13 producers, 1 unknown. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Converse | Clay | Unknown | ||
| Judson Road Perlite Plant | Perlite | Producer | ||
| Barrett Base Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Gifford Hill Ogden Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Ogden Quarry | Limestone, General | Producer | Limestone | |
| Unnamed Quarry | Limestone, General | Producer | 1973 | |
| Beck Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Beck Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gem Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Gravel, Sand | |
| Gem Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
7 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Selma, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Flash Flood | Selma | $100,000 | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain leading to flash flooding. There was a news report of nine homes flooded along Shin Oak Dr. in Live Oak. |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Selma | $5,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph knocking down a sizable tree limb that damaged a Jeep. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Selma | $5,000 | A survey found wind damage in the Live Oak and Windcrest areas just to the northeast of San Antonio. Most of the damage was to fences and trees. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Selma | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Universal City. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Selma | - | A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail at Toepperwein Rd. and Nacogdoches Rd. in northeastern San Antonio. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Selma | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Selma. The hail fell for two minutes. |
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Selma | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing I-35 at Toepperwein Rd. and the ramp from eastbound I-410 to southbound I-35. |
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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| John S. Harrison House | 0.3 miles | 2006 | |
 | Base Administration Building | 3.4 miles | 1987 |
 | Randolph Field Historic District | 3.8 miles | 1996 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100001252 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.