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More historic than 62% of U.S. towns · #85 of 642 in Texas. What drives it
Its Register listings are the Trolley Stop in Alamo Heights, the University of the Incarnate Word Administration Building and the Light House. Below: maps from 1953 on and the census since 1930.
Alamo Heights first appears in the census in 1930.
More historic than 62% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Alamo Heights is more historic than 62% of U.S. towns, #85 of 642 in Texas. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its age pulls it down.
Few Texas towns list much on the Register (a typical Texas town has 0.0 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Alamo Heights’ 4.0 sits above most of its state (80% of Texas towns have fewer) while its 3 listings outnumber those of 65% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: the first census (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Alamo Heights’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Alamo Heights.
The City of Alamo Heights was incorporated in 1922. Eventual growth to the north would happen later with the annexation of Bluebonnet Hills and Sylvan Hills in 1928 and 1944, respectively.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
2025Alamo Heights High School Muledome Bleachers
2025Alamo Heights High School Mule Stall
2025Alamo Heights High School Harry B. Orem Stadium
2025Alamo Heights High School Gymnasium Banners
2025Alamo Heights High School Construction
2023Alamo Heights High School Art Building Foyer
2012Ahbroadway
2010Alamo Heights Sign
2006TXMap-doton-AlamoHeightsEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Alamo Heights. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Alamo Heights.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Between 3,874 and 8,000 people in every census since 1930.
10 censuses, 1930–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Alamo Heights’ Wikipedia page.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Alamo Heights post office opened in 1930, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Alamo Heights is more historic than 62% of U.S. towns, #85 of 642 in Texas. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
Three places: the Trolley Stop in Alamo Heights (listed 2004), the University of the Incarnate Word Administration Building (2010) and the Light House (2011).
33% of Alamo Heights’ homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±6.0 points), against a typical 1.6% for a Texas town; the median home was built in 1950.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From Wikimedia Commons (9), the National Register of Historic Places (3), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
