The East Side, Government Hill to Highland Park

The East Side grew up beside the army. Between 1870 and 1875 the City offered the War Department land for a permanent post, and it accepted 92.79 acres two and a half miles northeast of the Alamo on what would soon be called Government Hill; construction of the quadrangle began on 7 June 1876, and the post was named Fort Sam Houston in 1890. Since 1 October 2010 it has been part of Joint Base San Antonio with Lackland and Randolph, and the Comptroller counts 74,713 people directly employed by the joint base in 2025, 33,256 of them on active duty. The East Side is also where, on the Handbook of Texas's account, the city's African American community largely lived, and in 1960 African Americans made up 7 percent of San Antonio's population. Dignowity Hill, across Interstate 37 from downtown, and Government Hill are City historic districts over part of their neighborhoods, Denver Heights to the south holds the small Knob Hill historic district, and Highland Park, farther southeast, has no City historic or conservation district at all. 4 guides are listed below.

This is San Antonio ISD, whose 2025 rate was 1.1552 per $100 against Northside ISD's 1.0049, so the tax arithmetic on this site's calculators, which is built on a Northside ISD address, does not apply here as it stands. The historic districts are the other thing to check: Dignowity Hill's covers 359 acres and Government Hill's 86 on the City's map, neither takes in the whole neighborhood of that name, and whether a house is inside one, and what that asks of an owner before exterior work, is worth settling with the City before the offer.