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Encinal, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Encinal census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78019. The Survey maps it on the Encinal quadrangle. 540 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 558 feet above sea level.

Encinal within La Salle County

Population over time

2 figures

Encinal fell from 559 to 540 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
2010559
2020540-19 (-3%)

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

19 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Encinal between 2008 and 2019, burning about 40 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
12 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 83
8 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHI 35 MM43
7 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMM42 GRASSFIRE
22 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service41 MILEMARKER
22 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service43 MILEMARKER
22 August 2010Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMM36-49SB
22 July 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceASSIST ENCINAL@42MM
19 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service36 MILEMARKER FIRE

Every fire recorded in La Salle County

Storms near this place

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Encinal in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 8 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2007Thunderstorm WindEncinal$25,000The bow echo that impacted northwest Webb county continued northeast into southern La Salle county, causing damage in the town of Encinal. There was damage to the siding of a few trailer homes. The sheet metal on a several structures was peeled back, and even taken off in some cases. Several large 8-12 inch diameter tree limbs were snapped. Highway signs were also blown over.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindEncinal$10,000Winds damaged a barn, windmill and water container north of Encinal.
April 2018HailEncinal-Law enforcement reported quarter sized hail east of Encinal.
April 2015HailEncinal-Public reported penny sized hail occurred in Encinal.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindEncinal-A thunderstorm produced microburst over the city of Encinal. Broadcast media, from nearby Laredo, reported a large aluminum section of roof from an old school building in Encinal was blown off and carried downwind roughly one block into a house. One telephone pole was also split in half by the section of roof.
September 2006Flash FloodEncinal-Law enforcement officials reported citywide flooding of streets in Encinal.
April 2004HailEncinal-Golf ball-size hail reported on Interstate 35, just south of Encinal, along the Webb and La Salle county line.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindEncinal-Large trees down around Encinal. Reported by NWS Co-op observer.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindEncinal-Moved a parked truck
April 1997HailEncinal-NWS spotter report of golfball sized hail.
May 2006HailEncinal-no account filed
May 2006HailEncinal-no account filed
May 2001HailEncinal-no account filed
February 1998HailEncinal-no account filed

Every storm recorded in La Salle 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
Artesia Wells16.9 miles13
Zamora Acres Colonia28.0 miles10
Cotulla28.0 miles10
Gardendale33.6 miles9
Woodward34.0 miles8
Los Angeles34.8 miles10
Dull35.8 miles9
Millett38.2 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 EncinalAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q980995The 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 1335452. 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.