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Windcrest is a small incorporated city in northeastern Bexar County, surrounded by San Antonio along the Interstate 35 corridor, about eleven miles northeast of downtown.

Windcrest was created by developers Murray and Barbee Winn, who began building the planned community in the mid-1950s; the first home was sold on October 10, 1954.

Windcrest incorporated in 1959 so residents could keep their independence rather than be absorbed by growing San Antonio.

Because so many early residents were military families from nearby Randolph Air Force Base and Fort Sam Houston, Windcrest earned the nickname 'Fort Windcrest.'

Windcrest is famous across Texas as the 'City of Lights' — a Christmas light tradition started by Barbee Winn in the late 1950s that has grown into the annual Windcrest Light-Up, which the city says draws more than 250,000 visitors.

A Windcrest home once won a nationwide contest on ABC's 'The Great Christmas Light Fight,' bringing the city's holiday displays national recognition.

Windcrest's population was 5,865 at the 2020 census, living in 2,403 households packed into roughly two square miles.

In 2008, Rackspace, one of the nation's leading internet-hosting firms, chose Windcrest for its headquarters, giving the little city an outsized role in San Antonio's tech economy.