1953 Map of Helotes

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Government Canyon dominates the western portion of this 1953 landscape, where the Balcones Escarpment transitions into the rugged drainage systems of Helotes Creek and French Creek. The small settlement of Helotes serves as a focal point, anchored by the Helotes Sch and the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe. This era captures the community before the mid-century expansion of San Antonio reached these foothills, showing a dispersed rural pattern of homesteads and winding roads.