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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.

Devine within Medina County

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

Population over time

3 figures

Devine 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.

YearPeople Change
20004,140
20104,350+210 (+5%)
20204,324-26 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

302 since 2005

Regional 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/undetermined170
Debris and open burning89
Equipment and vehicle use26
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH/GRASS FIRE CR 777
8 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVEHICLE/GRASS FIRE 502 CR 6612
7 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE 486 CR 7713
3 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE M/M 123 INTERSTATE 35
3 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE CR 767

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Medina County

Storms near this place

24 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 1998Thunderstorm WindDevine$10,000,000Hail 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 1998HailDevine$10,000,000no account filed
September 2012Thunderstorm WindDevine$50,000A 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 2000Thunderstorm WindDevine$50,000Downburst winds caused damage to a church and damaged cars in Devine.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindDevine$25,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 50 mph which caused damage to several buildings and knocked over some trees in Devine.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindDevine$15,000Thunderstorm 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 2024HailDevine-A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail in Devine.
January 2020HailDevine-A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail northwest of Devine.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindDevine-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that knocked down trees in the Devine area.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindDevine-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph near Hwy 173 and FM1343 northwest of Devine.
May 2015Flash FloodDevine-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing several roads in Devine.
September 2010Flash FloodDevine-Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Hermine produced flash flooding which closed multiple roads near Devine.
July 2007Flash FloodDevine-Thunderstorms in Medina County dropped from 3 to 4 inches of rain, closing SH132, SH173, and FM2200 due to flash flooding.
March 2007Tornado (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 2000Tornado (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 2016HailDevine-no account filed
April 2015HailDevine-no account filed
March 2009HailDevine-no account filed
May 2001HailDevine-no account filed
April 2000HailDevine-no account filed
March 1998HailDevine-no account filed
February 1998HailDevine-no account filed
May 1997HailDevine-no account filed
March 1997Thunderstorm WindDevine-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Medina 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
Natalia4.1 miles10
Coal Mine7.8 miles10
Biry8.2 miles7
Noonan8.9 miles9
Pearson9.3 miles10
Yancey12.7 miles7
La Coste12.8 miles10
Castroville15.0 miles9

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 DevineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981952The 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.