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History
Fair Oaks Ranch, Texas is a city in Bexar, Comal, and Kendall Counties. It is a Hill Country community located in northern Bexar County just off Interstate 10 and adjacent to Camp Bullis Military Reservation. The city is approximately 22 miles northwest of San Antonio and 7 miles southeast of Boerne, and its limits also stretch into neighboring Comal and Kendall counties.
During the 1930s Ralph E. Fair, Sr., a successful oilman and rancher, purchased several land tracts that became the 5000-acre Fair Oaks Ranch. He originally focused his efforts on raising racehorses, but in the 1940s Fair began cattle ranching and developed his own Hereford strain. His pioneering work in a bovine artificial insemination program and promotion of superior show cattle garnered international attention and brought prospective cattle buyers from all over the world.
After the deaths of Fair and his wife in the late 1960s, family heirs opened sections of the ranch for development, and a land office sold ranchettes of 5 acres and 10 to 12 acres.
By the mid-1980s residents explored the option to form a city. Fair Oaks North and Fair Oaks South, were incorporated. These founding fathers, along with homeowner's association board member helped to combine the two communities into one, named Fair Oaks Ranch, on January 21, 1988.
US Census Bureau Fact Sheet - General, Social, Economic, and Housing Characteristics.
Education
Fair Oaks Ranch is served by the Boerne Independent School District .
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Comal County
Kendall County
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