Plehwe Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Plehwe Complex is a set of historic saltbox houses on Boerne Stage Road near Leon Springs in Bexar County, Texas, United States. The place is also known as Plehwe Stage Coach Inn, a competitor to the Aue Stage Coach Inn just around the corner in 750 yards distance.”
Wikipedia article Plehwe Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 161 National Register listings published here for Bexar County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. W of Leon Springs on Boerne Stage Rd., Leon Springs, 78255
When was it listed? December 1983
Category. building
Census division. San Antonio Northwest
National Register reference number. 83003755 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

12 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Plehwe Complex between 2005 and 2011, burning about 342 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	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
13 August 2010	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SS COMMAND
1 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FAIR OAKS PKWY
16 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ANAUA SPRINGS
2 June 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	RALPH FAIR ROAD
14 June 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GOLDFINCH
14 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	85 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
13 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	85 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
12 May 2006	Debris and open burning	83 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HUNTRESS LANE

Every fire recorded in Bexar County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Plehwe Complex: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium. 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
	Beckman Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer	Limestone
	Beckman Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium	Producer

Every working 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.

Listed places nearby

4 within 8 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Aue Stagecoach Inn	0.5 miles	1979
Heidemann Ranch	4.3 miles	2011
Floore Country Store	6.7 miles	2005
R.L. White Ranch	7.4 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83003755 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.