San Antonio, Texas City of San Antonio San Antonio downtown from the Tower of The Americas at evening.
San Antonio downtown from the Tower of The Americas at evening.
Flag of San Antonio, Texas Flag Official seal of San Antonio, Texas Coat of arms of San Antonio, Texas Body San Antonio City Council San Antonio (/ s n n to ni.o / Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is the seventh-most populated town/city in the United States and the second-most crowded city in the state of Texas, with a populace of 1,409,019. It was the quickest burgeoning of the top 10 biggest cities in the United States from 2000 to 2010, and the second from 1990 to 2000. The town/city straddles South Texas and Central Texas and is on the southwestern corner of an urban megaregion known as the Texas Triangle.
San Antonio serves as the seat of Bexar County.
Recent annexations have extended the city's boundaries into Medina County and, though for only a very tiny region near the town/city of Garden Ridge, into Comal County. Due to its placement, the town/city has characteristics of other urban centers in which there are sparsely populated areas and a low density rate outside of the town/city limits.
San Antonio is the center of the San Antonio New Braunfels Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Commonly referred to as Greater San Antonio, the urbane region has a populace of nearly 2.4 million based on the 2015 US Enumeration estimate, making it the 25th-largest urbane region in the United States and third-largest in the state of Texas.
San Antonio was titled for Saint Anthony of Padua, whose feast day is on June 13, by a 1691 Spanish expedition in the area.
The town/city contains five 18th-century Spanish frontier missions, including The Alamo and San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, which were designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2015. Other notable attractions include the River Walk, the Tower of the Americas, the Alamo Bowl, and Marriage Island.
Commercial entertainment includes Sea - World and Six Flags Fiesta Texas infamous parks, and as stated to the San Antonio Convention and Visitors Bureau, the town/city is visited by about 32 million tourists a year.
The town/city is home to the five-time NBA champion San Antonio Spurs and hosts the annual San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, one of the biggest such affairs in the country.
Armed forces have various facilities in San Antonio: Fort Sam Houston, Lackland Air Force Base, Randolph Air Force Base (which constitute Joint Base San Antonio), and Lackland AFB/Kelly Field Annex, with Camp Bullis and Camp Stanley positioned outside the city.
Kelly Air Force Base directed out of San Antonio until 2001, when the airfield was transferred to Lackland AFB.
The remaining portions of the base were advanced as Port San Antonio, an industrial/business park and aerospace complex.
San Antonio is home to six Fortune 500 companies and the South Texas Medical Center, the only medical research and care provider in the South Texas region.
Main articles: History of San Antonio and Timeline of San Antonio At the time of European encounter, Payaya Indians lived near the San Antonio River Valley in the San Pedro Springs area, calling the vicinity Yanaguana, meaning "refreshing waters".
They titled the place and river "San Antonio" in his honor. Differences between Alarcon and Olivares resulted in delays, and assembly did not start until 1718. Fray Antonio de Olivares built, with the help of the Payaya Indians, the Mision de San Antonio de Valero (The Alamo), the Presidio San Antonio de Bexar, the bridge that connected both, and the Acequia Madre de Valero. The families who clustered around the presidio and mission formed the beginnings of Villa de Bejar, destined to turn into the most meaningful town in Spanish Texas. On May 1, the governor transferred ownership of the Mission San Antonio de Valero (later famous as the Alamo) to Fray Antonio de Olivares. On May 5, 1718 he commissioned the Presidio San Antonio de Bexar ("Bejar" in undivided Spanish orthography) on the west side of the San Antonio River, one-fourth league from the mission. Under the leadership of Juan Leal Goraz, the group marched overland from Veracruz to the Presidio San Antonio de Bexar, where they appeared on March 9, 1731.
San Antonio interval to turn into the biggest Spanish settlement in Texas; it was designated as the capital of the Spanish, later Mexican, province of Tejas.
In a series of battles, the Texian Army succeeded in forcing Mexican soldiers out of the settlement areas east of San Antonio, which were dominated by Americans.
Under the leadership of Ben Milam, in the Battle of Bexar, December 1835, Texian forces captured San Antonio from forces commanded by General Martin Perfecto de Cos, Santa Anna's brother-in-law.
Juan Seguin, who organized the business of Tejano patriots, who fought for Texas independence, fought at the Battle of Concepcion, Siege of Bexar, and the Battle of San Jacinto, and served as mayor of San Antonio.
By its end, the populace of the town/city had been reduced by almost two-thirds, to 800 inhabitants. Bolstered by migrants and immigrants, by 1860 at the start of the Civil War, San Antonio had grown to a town/city of 15,000 citizens .
Downtown San Antonio Following the Civil War, San Antonio prospered as a center of the cattle industry.
In his 1859 book about Texas, Olmsted described San Antonio as having a "jumble of competitions, costumes, languages, and buildings", which gave it a character that only New Orleans could rival in what he described as "odd and antiquated foreignness." In 1877, following the Reconstruction Era, developers constructed the first barns to San Antonio, connecting it to primary markets and port cities.
In Texas, the barns s supported a noteably different pattern of evolution of primary interior cities, such as San Antonio, Dallas and Fort Worth, compared to the historical evolution of coastal port metros/cities in the established easterly states.
Since the late twentieth century, San Antonio has had steady populace growth.
The city's populace has nearly doubled in 35 years, from just over 650,000 in the 1970 census to an estimated 1.2 million in 2005, through both populace growth and territory annexation (the latter has considerably enlarged the physical region of the city). In 1990, the United States Enumeration Bureau reported San Antonio's populace as 55.6% Hispanic, 7% black, and 36.2% non-Hispanic white. San Antonio is positioned near 29.5 N 98.5 W.
Further information: Neighborhoods and districts of San Antonio and Downtown San Antonio San Antonio receives about a dozen subfreezing evenings each year, typically seeing some sort of wintry rain about once every 2-3 winters (i.e.
San Antonio and New Braunfels, forty miles to the northeast, are some of the most flood-prone regions in North America. The October 1998 Central Texas floods were one of the costliest floods in United States history, resulting in $750 million in damage and 32 deaths.
In 2002, from June 30 to July 7, 35 in (890 mm) of precipitation fell in the San Antonio area, resulting in widespread flooding and 12 fatalities. Climate data for San Antonio (San Antonio Int'l), 1981 2010 normals, extremes 1885 present Natural vegetation in the San Antonio region (where undisturbed by development) includes oak-cedar woodland, oak grassland savanna, chaparral brush and riparian (stream) woodland.
According to the 2010 US Census, 1,327,407 citizens resided in the town/city proper of San Antonio, an increase of 16.0% since 2000.
Due to San Antonio's low density rate and lack of momentous urbane populace outside the town/city limits, the urbane region ranked just 30th in the US with a populace of 1,592,383. As stated above, the 2010 US Enumeration showed the city's populace at 1,327,407, making it the second-most-populous town/city in Texas (after only Houston), as well as the seventh-most-populous town/city in the United States.
The 2011 US Enumeration estimate for the eight-county San Antonio New Braunfels urbane region placed its populace at 2,194,927 making it the third-most crowded metro region in Texas (after Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and Houston Metropolitan Area) and the 24th-most crowded metro region in the US.
In San Antonio, 48% of the populace are males, and 52% of the populace are females.
San Antonio has a diversified economy with about a $96.8 billion urbane Gross Domestic Product.
This rates the town/city 4th among Texas urbane areas and 38th in the United States. San Antonio's economy is concentrated primarily inside military, community care, government civil service, financial services, petroleum and gas and tourism sectors.
Within the past twenty years, San Antonio has turn into a momentous locale for American-based call centers and has added a momentous manufacturing zone centered around automobiles.
Tourism employs 94,000 people and makes an economic impact of over $10.7 billion in the small-town economy as revealed in the Economic Impact Study conducted every two years by the San Antonio Tourism Council and the research team of Dr.
Tourism also brings new annual revenues to the City of San Antonio and other governmental entities with the hotel & motel tax, revenue taxes and other revenues from hospitality agreements and contracts.
San Antonio is home to six Fortune 500 companies: Valero Energy, Tesoro Corp, USAA, i - Heart - Media, Nu - Star Energy and CST Brands, Inc.. H-E-B, the 14th-largest private business in the United States is also headquartered in San Antonio.
Other companies headquartered in San Antonio include: Bill Miller Bar-B-Q Enterprises, Carenet Healthcare Services, Security Service Federal Credit Union, Eye Care Centers of America, Frost Bank, Harte-Hanks, Kinetic Concepts, SWBC, New - Tek, Rackspace, Taco Cabana, Broadway Bank, Zachry Holdings/Zachry Construction Company, Randolph-Brooks Federal Credit Union and Whataburger.
The defense trade in San Antonio employs over 89,000 and provides a $5.25 billion impact to the city's economy. Downtown San Antonio from the Tower of the Americas The Alamo Mission in San Antonio ("the Alamo"), positioned in Downtown, is Texas' top tourist attraction.
Because of the mission, San Antonio is often called the "Alamo City". Extended an additional 13 miles between 2009 2013, the landscaped walking and bike path line the San Antonio River from the "Museum Reach" beginning at the Historic Pearl Brewery through downtown, "Downtown Reach", past the Blue Star's "Eagleland" to the "Mission Reach" ending at Loop 410 South past Mission San Juan Capistrano. Lined with various shops, bars, and restaurants, as well as the Arneson River Theater, this attraction is transformed into an impressive festival of lights amid the Christmas and New Year holiday period, and is suffused with the small-town sounds of folklorico and flamenco music amid the summer, especially during celebrations such as the Fiesta Noche del Rio.
Also, there is the very prominent San Antonio Zoo positioned in the city's Brackenridge Park.
San Antonio is also home to a several amusement parks including Six Flags Fiesta Texas, Splashtown and Morgan's Wonderland, a infamous park for kids who have special needs. Kiddie Park, featuring old fashioned amusement rides for children, was established in 1925, and is the earliest children's amusement park in the U.S.
San Antonio is home to the first exhibition of undivided art in Texas, the Mc - Nay Art Museum.
Other art establishments and exhibitions include Art - Pace, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, the Briscoe Western Art Museum, Buckhorn Saloon & Museum (where visitors can experience something of the cowboy culture year round), San Antonio Museum of Art, formerly the Lonestar Brewery, Say Si (mentoring San Antonio creative youth), the Southwest School of Art, Texas Rangers Museum, Texas Transportation Museum, the Witte Museum and the Do - Seum.
The five missions of the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, including the Alamo, were titled a UNESCO World Heritage Site on July 5, 2015.
The San Antonio Missions became the 23rd U.S.
The new Mission Reach Ecosystem and Restoration and Recreation universal was instead of in 2013, and created over 15 miles of biking, hiking, and paddling trails that connect the Missions to the San Antonio riverwalk. Other places of interest include the San Antonio Botanical Garden, Brackenridge Park, the Japanese Tea Gardens, the Sunken Garden Theater, and The Woodlawn Theatre and the Majik Theatre a children's educational theater.
Work was authorized to begin in 2015 on the restoration of the former Hot Wells hotel, spa, and bathhouses on the San Antonio River on the south-side of the city. The Alamo, San Antonio's most famous attraction San Jose Mission Church, part of the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park San Antonio's historic River Walk extends some 15 miles, attracting a several million visitors every year.
Boat with sightseers on the San Antonio River Central Library of The San Antonio Public Library, Color of exterior referred to as "Enchilada Red" by San Antonians The San Antonio Convention Center Rivercenter Mall in downtown San Antonio The Buckhorn Museum with a plethora of exhibits, is positioned in downtown San Antonio.
Pat O'Brien's Bar and Restaurant, based in New Orleans, has an supply in downtown San Antonio.
Carriage rides in downtown San Antonio The Shops at La Cantera is a non-enclosed shopping mall positioned near the University of Texas at San Antonio in the northwestern portion of the city.
San Antonio Missions National Historical Park Hot Wells, San Antonio, Texas (postcard, about 1907) It serves the town/city of San Antonio and Bexar County. San Antonio Spurs Basketball NBA 1967 AT&T Center (18,580) 18,418 5 San Antonio Missions Baseball Texas League 1888 Wolff Stadium (9,200) 8,500 13 San Antonio Stars Basketball WNBA 1997 AT&T Center (18,418) 7,719 0 San Antonio Rampage Ice hockey AHL 2002 AT&T Center (16,151) 7,001 0 San Antonio FC Soccer USL 2016 Toyota Field (8,300) 6,168 0 The city's only top-level experienced sports team, and consequently the team most San Antonians follow, is the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association.
The AT&T Center is also home to the San Antonio Rampage of the American Hockey League and the San Antonio Stars of the WNBA, both owned by the Spurs organization.
San Antonio is home to the Double-A San Antonio Missions who play at Nelson Wolff Stadium and are the minor league partner of the San Diego Padres.
San Antonio had a experienced soccer charter when the San Antonio Thunder played two seasons in the initial NASL amid the 1975 1976 seasons.
Soccer Complex were sold to the City of San Antonio and Bexar County, a deal which was accompanied by an agreement for Spurs Sports and Entertainment to operate the facilities and field a team that plays in the United Soccer League.
San Antonio has two rugby union teams, the Alamo City Rugby Football Club, and San Antonio Rugby Football Club.
The San Antonio urbane area's lesser population has so far contributed to its lack of an NFL, MLB, NHL, or MLS team.
City officials are said to be attempting to lure the National Football League permanently to San Antonio.
Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue stated San Antonio was prosperous in hosting the New Orleans Saints, and that the town/city would be on the short list for any future NFL expansions. The town/city has also hosted the Dallas Cowboys and Houston Oilers preseason camps in the past, and the Cowboys practiced in San Antonio through 2011. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones acknowledged his support for the town/city to turn into home to an NFL franchise. The Valero Texas Open is a experienced golf tournament on the PGA Tour held at San Antonio since 1922.
The University of Texas at San Antonio fields San Antonio's chief NCAA Division I athletic teams, known as the UTSA Roadrunners.
San Antonio hosts the NCAA football Alamo Bowl each December, played among the Big XII and Pac-12 each December in the Alamodome.
The University of Texas at San Antonio fields the only collegiate men's rugby team in the city.
In 1983 San Antonio had the 10th highest homicide rate in Texas with 18.5 homicides per 100,000 residents. The number of juveniles arrested in San Antonio for violent crimes tripled between 1987 and 1994, as stated to the Texas Law Enforcement Management and Administration Statistics Program.
In 1993 San Antonio was nicknamed the "Drive-By City" after San Antonio Police Department recorded over 1,200 drive-by shootings nearly 3.5 per day.
That figure dwarfed the number in other Texas cities, and it unofficially marked San Antonio as the state's drive-by capital.
City Hall, San Antonio, Texas (postcard, about 1906) The City of San Antonio runs under a Council-Manager form of government.
The San Antonio Police Department (SAPD) is the city's municipal body of law enforcement.
The San Antonio Fire Department (SAFD) provides the town/city with fire protection and EMS service.
Unlike most large metros/cities in the US, San Antonio is not completely surrounded by autonomous suburban cities, and under Texas state law it exercises extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) over much of the encircling unincorporated land, including planning primary thoroughfares and enforcing rules for platting and subdivision.
The town/city planned to annex nearly forty additional square miles by 2009. In May 2010, the City of San Antonio agreed to release thousands of acres of territory in its extraterritorial jurisdiction along Interstate 10 to Schertz.
Also, since the City has took in a large amount of territory over time, San Antonio surrounds a several autonomous enclave metros/cities which include Alamo Heights, Terrell Hills, Olmos Park, Hollywood Park, Hill Country Village, Castle Hills, Windcrest, Kirby, Balcones Heights, and Shavano Park.
These neighborhoods are not districts of the City of San Antonio like Lincoln Heights and Brackenridge Park, rather, they are autonomous metros/cities throughout the San Antonio region completely surrounded, but not directly controlled, by the City of San Antonio.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) operates the Parole Division Region IV command posts in the San Antonio Metro Parole Complex.
The Texas Department of Transportation operates the San Antonio District Office in San Antonio. The United States Postal Service operates San Antonio's Main Post Office. Other postal services are positioned throughout San Antonio.
The University of Texas at San Antonio Publicly supported schools include UT Health San Antonio, the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), Texas A&M University San Antonio, and the Alamo Community College District.
UTSA is San Antonio's biggest university.
The San Antonio Public Library serves all of these establishments along with the 19 autonomous school districts inside the Bexar County/ San Antonio urbane area. Gerard Catholic High School, Central Catholic Marianist High School, Incarnate Word High School, Saint Mary's Hall, The Atonement Academy, Antonian College Preparatory High School, San Antonio Academy, Holy Cross High School, Providence High School, The Carver Academy, Keystone School, TMI The Episcopal School of Texas, St.
Anthony Catholic High School, Lutheran High School of San Antonio, and Harmony Science Academy.
San Antonio has one primary newspaper, the San Antonio Express-News, which has served the region since 1865.
The Hearst Corporation, which owned a second newspaper, the San Antonio Light, purchased the Express-News from News Corp.
The San Antonio Current is the no-charge "alternative" paper presented weekly with small-town political issues, art and music news, restaurant listings and reviews, and listings of affairs and eveninglife around town.
The San Antonio Business Journal covers general company news.
Edible San Antonio, San Antonio's bi-monthly food magazine, is presented every eight weeks.
The San Antonio River Walk Current covers general San Antonio news.
About 50 airways broadcasts can be heard in the San Antonio region 30 of them are actually positioned in the town/city proper.
San Antonio is home to i - Heart - Media, the biggest operator of airways broadcasts in the US.
College Alternative station KSYM, 90.1 FM, is owned by the Alamo Community College District and directed by San Antonio College students and like KRTU it plays the Third Coast music network amid the day and alternative music at evening.
San Antonio radio is diversified, due to an influx of non-Tejano Latinos, mostly from the East Coast, who are serving in the city's various military bases, as well as immigrants from Mexico.
Therefore, just like in the rest of the country, airways broadcast conglomerates have been changing formats in San Antonio to reflect shifting demographics.
Even with the mostly large size of both the town/city proper and the urbane area, San Antonio has always been a medium-sized market.
The San Antonio International Airport (SAT) is positioned in uptown San Antonio, about eight miles north of Downtown.
San Antonio International is the 6th busiest airport based on passenger boardings in Texas and 45th in the United States.
Stinson Municipal Airport is a reliever airport positioned six miles (10 km) south of Downtown San Antonio.
A VIA bus stopped at a Downtown San Antonio intersection VIA began operating a Bus Rapid Transit line known as VIA Primo in December 2012, which joins Downtown San Antonio to the South Texas Medical Center, the chief campus of the University of Texas at San Antonio, and the autonomous enclave town/city of Leon Valley.
Amtrak, the nationwide passenger rail service, provides service to San Antonio at San Antonio Amtrak Station, operating the Texas Eagle daily between San Antonio and Chicago's Union Station. Amtrak also operates the Sunset Limited three times a week in each direction through San Antonio between Los Angeles and New Orleans.
The Texas Eagle section travels between San Antonio and Los Angeles as part of the Sunset Limited.
Freight service from San Antonio to Corpus Christi is provided by the Union Pacific Railroad.
The predecessor route, including passenger service, from 1913 to 1956 was provided by the San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf Railroad, or "The Sausage", as it was generally termed.
San Antonio became the biggest American town/city without an intra-city rail fitness when Phoenix, the former biggest city without such a system, procured one in 2008.
US 281 southbound towards Downtown San Antonio Interstate 37: Lucian Adams Freeway (Southeast) runs from San Antonio through its junction with US Highway 281 south (Edinburg and Mc - Allen) near Three Rivers and into Corpus Christi through its junction with Interstate 69 - E/US Highway 77 south (Kingsville, Harlingen and Brownsville) to its southern end at Corpus Christi Bay.
State Highway 16: From Freer, it runs concurrent with I-410 for 17 miles (27 km) along southwest San Antonio, over to Bandera Road to Bandera.
State Loop 13: Is the city's inner loop on the south side serving Lackland AFB, Port San Antonio, South Park Mall and Brooks City - Base traveling along Military Dr.
San Antonio has about 136 miles (219 km) of bike lanes, routes or off-road paths. Off-road trails travel along the San Antonio River, linear greenways, or town/city parks.
San Antonio Bike Share, a non-profit, was formed to oversee the operation, locally directed and maintained by Bike World.
A 2011 study by Walk Score ranked San Antonio the 40th-most walkable of the fifty biggest cities in the United States.
With an average Walk Score of 33, San Antonio is one of the most car-dependent primary cities in America. Father Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares Official records for San Antonio were kept at downtown from March 1885 to December 1940, at Stinson Municipal Airport from January 1941 to June 1942, and at San Antonio Int'l since July 1942.
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