San Antonio Guides
San Antonio core
Downtown San Antonio
Built around the 1718 mission that became the Alamo, downtown San Antonio is the city's civic and tourism core -- the River Walk, Tower of the Americas, and a skyline shaped by a catastrophic 1921 flood that led the city to build the Riverwalk instead of paving over its namesake river.
BexarSouthtown
San Antonio's arts district just south of downtown, built around the King William Historic District's 1850s-60s German merchant mansions and anchored today by the Blue Star Arts Complex and its monthly First Friday Art Walk.
Cities across the metro
Alamo Heights
An independently incorporated city of about 7,350 people almost entirely surrounded by San Antonio -- tree-lined streets platted in the 1890s as a deliberately upscale streetcar suburb, still running its own water utility and school district over a century later.
BexarStone Oak
A large, master-planned suburban community on San Antonio's far north side, first platted in 1985 -- now 35-plus subdivisions and roughly 6,500 households anchored by Reagan High School and the Village at Stone Oak.
KendallBoerne
The county seat of Kendall County and one of the fastest-growing small cities near San Antonio -- a Hill Country town founded by German Freethinker immigrants in 1849, still built around a walkable limestone Main Street.
ComalNew Braunfels
A German-founded river city almost exactly midway between San Antonio and Austin on I-35 -- one of the fastest-growing cities in the country, built around the spring-fed Comal River, the historic Gruene district, and a real, recurring flood risk from two rivers.
GuadalupeSchertz
A German-founded farming settlement turned fast-growing I-35 corridor suburb near Randolph Air Force Base -- population under 500 as recently as the late 1950s, now approaching 45,000.
BexarHelotes
A small Hill Country-edge city built around a 1942 dance hall that launched Willie Nelson's career -- incorporated only in 1981, now one of San Antonio's fastest-growing northwest suburbs.
BexarConverse
A working- and middle-class Bexar County suburb east of San Antonio, named for a railroad engineer in 1877 and now home to roughly 27,000-30,000 people after decades of steady growth.
Coming soon
Leon Valley
Guide in progress.
Universal City
Guide in progress.
Cibolo
Guide in progress.
Live Oak
Guide in progress.
Selma
Guide in progress.
Fair Oaks Ranch
Guide in progress.
Terrell Hills
Guide in progress.
Olmos Park
Guide in progress.