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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.

Catarina within Dimmit County

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

Population over time

3 figures

Catarina 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.

YearPeople Change
2000135
2010118-17 (-13%)
202070-48 (-41%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

9 since 2006

Regional 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/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
2 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 May 2006Arson/incendiarism500 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 May 2008Equipment and vehicle use300 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 April 2006Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 December 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 December 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dimmit County

Storms near this place

8 since 2007

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2010Thunderstorm WindCatarina$10,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 50 mph which knocked down power lines and caused minor damage to a house.
September 2024Flash FloodCatarina-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing Hwy 83 south of Catarina.
March 2020HailCatarina-A thunderstorm produced baseball size hail at a convenience store in Catarina.
March 2018HailCatarina-A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail north of Catarina.
September 2017FloodCatarina-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flooding closing FM 2688 in both directions west of Catarina.
July 2007Flash FloodCatarina-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 2016HailCatarina-no account filed
May 2011HailCatarina-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dimmit County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Kearny4.1 miles12
Gilson Groves9.2 miles10
Asherton10.2 miles10
Valley Wells10.8 miles13
Las Vegas15.4 miles8
Carrizo Hills Colonia15.7 miles9
Carrizo Hill15.8 miles9
Big Wells15.9 miles8

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 CatarinaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981593The 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.