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Photograph of Specht's Store and Schmidt's Gin
Photograph by Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Specht's Store and Schmidt's Gin

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.

From the record

One of 161 National Register listings published here for Bexar County · listed in 2020 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 9 buildingss, 6 structuress as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 106 Specht Rd., Bulverde, 78260
  • When was it listed? July 2020
  • Category. district
  • Census division. San Antonio North
  • National Register reference number. 100005384 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

59 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Specht's Store and Schmidt's Gin between 2005 and 2012, burning about 966 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined25
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTIMBERLINE FIRE
16 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use440 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBLANCO ROAD - 67
23 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGH RIDGE
2 August 2012Debris and open burning145 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOBST
11 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBLANCO ROAD
4 July 2005Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Bexar County

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100005384 in Record Group 79.
Bexar CountyAll 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.