Catarina, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Asherton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78836. The Survey maps it on the Catarina quadrangle. 70 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 551 feet above sea level.
On record in Catarina
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- Valenzuela Ranch Headquarterslisted 1985
Population over time
3 figuresCatarina fell from 135 to 70 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 135 | |
| 2010 | 118 | -17 (-13%) |
| 2020 | 70 | -48 (-41%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1929 USGS Cotulla quadrangle1:125000
- 1932 USGS Valley Wells quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1940 USGS Catarina quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Catarina quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Cotulla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
9 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Catarina between 2006 and 2008, burning about 904 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 17 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 10 May 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 500 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 1 May 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 300 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 April 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 15 March 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 December 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 15 December 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Catarina in 8 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Catarina | $10,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 50 mph which knocked down power lines and caused minor damage to a house. |
| September 2024 | Flash Flood | Catarina | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing Hwy 83 south of Catarina. |
| March 2020 | Hail | Catarina | - | A thunderstorm produced baseball size hail at a convenience store in Catarina. |
| March 2018 | Hail | Catarina | - | A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail north of Catarina. |
| September 2017 | Flood | Catarina | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flooding closing FM 2688 in both directions west of Catarina. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Catarina | - | Thunderstorms dropped from 2 to 4 inches of rain in the southeast corner of Dimmit County, closing US83 and FM133 due to high water. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Catarina | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Catarina | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kearny | 4.1 miles | 12 | |
| Gilson Groves | 9.2 miles | 10 | |
| Asherton | 10.2 miles | 10 | |
| Valley Wells | 10.8 miles | 13 | |
| Las Vegas | 15.4 miles | 8 | |
| Carrizo Hills Colonia | 15.7 miles | 9 | |
| Carrizo Hill | 15.8 miles | 9 | |
| Big Wells | 15.9 miles | 8 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Catarina | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981593 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1332326. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.








