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Christine, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Jourdanton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78012. The Survey maps it on the Christine East quadrangle. 337 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 331 feet above sea level.

Christine within Atascosa County

Population over time

2 figures

Christine fell from 390 to 337 between 2010 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
2010390
2020337-53 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

55 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Christine between 2005 and 2017, burning about 815 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use17
Debris and open burning12
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Smoking1

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
7 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePEELER RANCH
7 September 2006Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFRANK MASOR
23 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROEHINSTEN
20 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3387/ERCO
9 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROSENSTEIN
7 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service140@CR337
4 July 2014Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCEMETARY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Atascosa County

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Christine in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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
May 2020Thunderstorm WindChristine$10,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 80 mph that blew the roof off a house near Christine. Rain was pouring into the living room.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindChristine-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph five miles north of Cross.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindChristine-A tree was blown down.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindChristine-The Atascosa County Sheriff's Office reported trees blown down.
March 2008HailChristine-The COOP observer in Christine reported nickel size hail.
March 2009HailChristine-no account filed
March 2009HailChristine-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Atascosa 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
La Parita6.5 miles8
Jourdanton9.3 miles9
McCoy9.3 miles10
Dobrowolski10.5 miles8
Campbellton10.7 miles11
Leal11.3 miles8
Coughran11.6 miles9
Charlotte12.2 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 ChristineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981522The 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 1354476. 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.