WETMORE, TEXAS

Texas Ghost Town
Bexar County, South Texas

29° 33' 52" N, 98° 25' 9" W (29.564444, -98.419167)

11 Miles NE of Downtown San Antonio
20 Miles SE of New Braunfels

Absorbed into Greater San Antonio
Population Included in San Antonio’s general population

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Wetmore Texas former post office
Photo courtesy Stephen Michaels, January 2008
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History in a Pecan Shell

On the tracks of the International-Great Northern Railroad.
Wetmore arrived with the building of the Houston and Great Northern Railroad in 1890. Railroad official Jacob S. Wetmore is the town’s namesake.

A post office opened in 1890, and a town started forming around it. The population had reached 25 by 1914 and in 1920 the town was busting at the seams with 50 residents. Prior to the U.S. entry into WWII, Wetmore’s population had reached 150. The town was still identified as a separate town as late as 1985 when there were 175 people living here It has since been absorbed by encroaching San Antonio and doesn’t appear on modern maps.

Photo courtesy Stephen Michaels, January 2008
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Photo courtesy Stephen Michaels, January 2008

Bexar County 1907 postal map showing Wetmore
on International-Great Northern Railroad
11 miles NE of San Antonio,
7 miles SW of Bracken in Comal County
From Texas state map #2090
Courtesy Texas General Land Office

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South Texas

Wetmore, Texas Nearby Towns:
San Antonio the county seat
Luxello
Bracken
New Braunfels
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