Devine, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Devine-Natalia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78016. It stands on Burnt Boot Creek. The Survey maps it on the Devine quadrangle. 4,324 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 646 feet above sea level.
On record in Devine
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
Devine Opera Houselisted 1975
Population over time
3 figuresDevine grew from 4,140 to 4,324 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 | 4,140 | |
| 2010 | 4,350 | +210 (+5%) |
| 2020 | 4,324 | -26 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1942 USGS Natalia quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Devine quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
302 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 302 fires within 5 miles of Devine between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,442 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 | 170 |
| Debris and open burning | 89 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 26 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSH/GRASS FIRE CR 777 |
| 8 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | VEHICLE/GRASS FIRE 502 CR 6612 |
| 7 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 30 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE 486 CR 7713 |
| 3 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE M/M 123 INTERSTATE 35 |
| 3 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 29 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE CR 767 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
24 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Devine in 24 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 11 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Devine | $10,000,000 | Hail propelled by winds estimated at over 80 mph broke windows and destroyed vegetation across the southeast corner of the county. The hail was piled up to 3 feet deep in many locations, and, in spite of temperatures through the mid morning in the mid 60s to near 70, hail piles were still visible at noon when the NWS survey team arrived. Over 1000 windows were broken out of homes and cars in Devine. Major damage was reported to 12 homes with minor damage to nearly 1300 others. Hundreds of cars were damaged by the combination of wind and hail. Also several school buses were damaged. |
| February 1998 | Hail | Devine | $10,000,000 | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Devine | $50,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 58 mph that snapped two power poles and downed power lines. Winds also damaged some roofs and blew down some trees. |
| November 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Devine | $50,000 | Downburst winds caused damage to a church and damaged cars in Devine. |
| January 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Devine | $25,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 50 mph which caused damage to several buildings and knocked over some trees in Devine. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Devine | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds tore the roof off a volunteer fire station and caused damage to several buildings in Devine. Half-inch hail was reported with the storm and city power was knocked out for an hour after midnight. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Devine | - | A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail in Devine. |
| January 2020 | Hail | Devine | - | A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail northwest of Devine. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Devine | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that knocked down trees in the Devine area. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Devine | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph near Hwy 173 and FM1343 northwest of Devine. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Devine | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing several roads in Devine. |
| September 2010 | Flash Flood | Devine | - | Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Hermine produced flash flooding which closed multiple roads near Devine. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Devine | - | Thunderstorms in Medina County dropped from 3 to 4 inches of rain, closing SH132, SH173, and FM2200 due to flash flooding. |
| March 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Devine | - | A chase team reported that a small, short-lived tornado had formed to the southwest of the first tornado near the town of Devine. It tracked briefly toward the northeast, lifting and dropping along a half-mile path. The tornado was estimated at 30 yards wide and was rated as an EF-0. |
| May 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Devine | - | A very small and short-lived tornado was observed by officers from the Department of Public Safety in an open area just south of Devine. It caused no known damage. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Devine | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Devine | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Devine | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Devine | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Devine | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Devine | - | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Hail | Devine | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Devine | - | no account filed |
| March 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Devine | - | 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.
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 Devine | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981952 | 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 1355983. 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.




