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Dilley, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Dilley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78017. The Survey maps it on the Dilley quadrangle. 3,274 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 561 feet above sea level.

Dilley within Frio County

Population over time

2 figures

Dilley fell from 3,894 to 3,274 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
20103,894
20203,274-620 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

300 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 300 fires within 5 miles of Dilley between 2005 and 2019, burning about 1,256 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/undetermined199
Debris and open burning59
Equipment and vehicle use20
Power generation/transmission/distribution14
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service342 E. SALINAS
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 117 W. 1 MI. SOUTH OF HWY 85
7 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service88 NORTHBOUND
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service87 1/2 SOUTHBOUND
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service89 SOUTHBOUND
3 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Frio County

Storms near this place

18 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dilley in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 11 hail, 3 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 1999Thunderstorm WindDilley$100,000no account filed
September 2012Thunderstorm WindDilley$5,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 50 mph that blew the roof off a trailer home.
January 1998Flash FloodDilley$3,000no account filed
March 2023HailDilley-A thunderstorm produced two inch diameter hail in Dilley.
July 2007Flash FloodDilley-Scattered thunderstorms produced general 2 to 3 inch rainfall over Dimmit and Frio Counties in the early afternoon, with most of the rain falling in 2 hours. US85 and FM117 were closed near Dilley.
July 2007Flash FloodDilley-From 2 to 3 inches of rain fell over the southeast part of the county in the morning, with up to 7 inches near the McMullen County line. FM1582, US85, and FM462 were closed through early afternoon due to flash flooding.
October 2005Thunderstorm WindDilley-A Skywarn-trained spotter reported that severe thunderstorm winds had blown down trees near Dilley. No other damage was indicated.
March 2012HailDilley-no account filed
March 2012HailDilley-no account filed
May 2007HailDilley-no account filed
May 2006HailDilley-no account filed
October 2005HailDilley-no account filed
June 2004HailDilley-no account filed
February 1998HailDilley-no account filed
February 1998HailDilley-no account filed
May 1997HailDilley-no account filed
July 1996Funnel CloudDilley-no account filed
April 1995HailDilley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Frio 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
Hilltop1.8 miles9
Hilltop Colonia1.8 miles9
Derby7.5 miles11
Derby Colonia7.5 miles11
Divot8.1 miles9
Parks Corner Windmill9.9 miles9
Las Flores12.3 miles8
Melon12.4 miles10

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 DilleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q972549The 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 1356027. 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.