Editing Schertz, Texas (section)

==Geography==
[[File:Stone Creek, Shertz Texas.jpg|thumb|Stone Creek, Shertz Texas]]The original center of Schertz is located in western Guadalupe County. City Hall, located at 1400 Schertz Parkway, is also in Guadalupe County. Large tracts of the city now extend north into Comal County and south into Bexar County. [[Cibolo Creek]], forming the boundary between Guadalupe and Bexar counties, runs through the city just south of the historic downtown. Schertz is bordered by [[Cibolo, Texas|Cibolo]] to the east, a narrow strip of [[San Antonio]] to the south along [[Interstate 10 in Texas|Interstate 10]], [[Converse, Texas|Converse]] and [[Randolph Air Force Base|Randolph AFB]] to the southwest, [[Universal City, Texas|Universal City]] and [[Selma, Texas|Selma]] to the west, [[Garden Ridge, Texas|Garden Ridge]] to the north, and [[New Braunfels, Texas|New Braunfels]] to the northeast.

[[Interstate 35 in Texas|Interstate 35]] runs through the northern part of the city, with access from exits 174 through 180. I-35 runs {{convert|19|mi}} southeast to downtown San Antonio and {{convert|6|mi|0}} from the northeastern city limits to the center of [[New Braunfels, Texas|New Braunfels]].

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], Schertz has a total area of {{convert|74.0|sqkm|order=flip}}, of which {{convert|73.6|sqkm|order=flip}} is land and {{convert|0.5|sqkm|order=flip}}, or 0.63%, is water.<ref name="Census 2010">{{cite web| url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US4866128| archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212203518/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US4866128| url-status=dead| archive-date=February 12, 2020|title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Schertz city, Texas|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder|access-date=April 14, 2014}}</ref>

A portion of the property of [[Randolph Field]] extends beyond the limits of the titular [[census-designated place]], into the Schertz city limits.<ref name=RAFBCDPmap>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/DC20BLK/st48_tx/place/p4866128_schertz/DC20BLK_P4866128.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP (INDEX): Schertz city, TX|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=2024-10-29|pages=4, 6 (PDF pp. 5, 7/8)}}<br>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/DC20BLK/st48_tx/place/p4860608_randolph_afb/DC20BLK_P4860608.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP (INDEX): Randolph AFB CDP, TX|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=2024-10-29}}</ref>