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.
Population over time
2 figuresDilley 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,894 | |
| 2020 | 3,274 | -620 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 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.
- 1942 USGS Dilley quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Dilley quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 2002 USGS Dilley quadrangle1:50000
Fires near this place
300 since 2005Regional 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/undetermined | 199 |
| Debris and open burning | 59 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 14 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 342 E. SALINAS |
| 8 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 117 W. 1 MI. SOUTH OF HWY 85 |
| 7 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 88 NORTHBOUND |
| 4 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 87 1/2 SOUTHBOUND |
| 4 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 89 SOUTHBOUND |
| 3 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
18 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dilley | $100,000 | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dilley | $5,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 50 mph that blew the roof off a trailer home. |
| January 1998 | Flash Flood | Dilley | $3,000 | no account filed |
| March 2023 | Hail | Dilley | - | A thunderstorm produced two inch diameter hail in Dilley. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Dilley | - | 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Dilley | - | 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 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dilley | - | A Skywarn-trained spotter reported that severe thunderstorm winds had blown down trees near Dilley. No other damage was indicated. |
| March 2012 | Hail | Dilley | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Dilley | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Dilley | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Dilley | - | no account filed |
| October 2005 | Hail | Dilley | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Dilley | - | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Hail | Dilley | - | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Hail | Dilley | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Dilley | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Funnel Cloud | Dilley | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Dilley | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hilltop | 1.8 miles | 9 | |
| Hilltop Colonia | 1.8 miles | 9 | |
| Derby | 7.5 miles | 11 | |
| Derby Colonia | 7.5 miles | 11 | |
| Divot | 8.1 miles | 9 | |
| Parks Corner Windmill | 9.9 miles | 9 | |
| Las Flores | 12.3 miles | 8 | |
| Melon | 12.4 miles | 10 |
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 Dilley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q972549 | 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 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.







