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.
Population over time
2 figuresChristine 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 390 | |
| 2020 | 337 | -53 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Pleasanton quadrangle1:62500
- 1961 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Christine East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Pleasanton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
55 since 2005Regional 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/undetermined | 22 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PEELER RANCH |
| 7 September 2006 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FRANK MASOR |
| 23 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROEHINSTEN |
| 20 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 3387/ERCO |
| 9 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROSENSTEIN |
| 7 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 140@CR337 |
| 4 July 2014 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CEMETARY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2008Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Christine | $10,000 | A 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 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Christine | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph five miles north of Cross. |
| March 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Christine | - | A tree was blown down. |
| March 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Christine | - | The Atascosa County Sheriff's Office reported trees blown down. |
| March 2008 | Hail | Christine | - | The COOP observer in Christine reported nickel size hail. |
| March 2009 | Hail | Christine | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Christine | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Parita | 6.5 miles | 8 | |
| Jourdanton | 9.3 miles | 9 | |
| McCoy | 9.3 miles | 10 | |
| Dobrowolski | 10.5 miles | 8 | |
| Campbellton | 10.7 miles | 11 | |
| Leal | 11.3 miles | 8 | |
| Coughran | 11.6 miles | 9 | |
| Charlotte | 12.2 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 Christine | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981522 | 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 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.






