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.
Population over time
2 figuresEncinal 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 559 | |
| 2020 | 540 | -19 (-3%) |
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.
- 1929 USGS Cotulla quadrangle1:125000
- 1953 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Encinal quadrangle1:62500
- 1961 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Encinal quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Cotulla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
19 since 2008Regional 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 burning | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 83 |
| 8 August 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HI 35 MM43 |
| 7 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MM42 GRASSFIRE |
| 22 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 41 MILEMARKER |
| 22 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 43 MILEMARKER |
| 22 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MM36-49SB |
| 22 July 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ASSIST ENCINAL@42MM |
| 19 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 36 MILEMARKER FIRE |
Storms near this place
14 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Encinal | $25,000 | The 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 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Encinal | $10,000 | Winds damaged a barn, windmill and water container north of Encinal. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Encinal | - | Law enforcement reported quarter sized hail east of Encinal. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Encinal | - | Public reported penny sized hail occurred in Encinal. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Encinal | - | 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 2006 | Flash Flood | Encinal | - | Law enforcement officials reported citywide flooding of streets in Encinal. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Encinal | - | Golf ball-size hail reported on Interstate 35, just south of Encinal, along the Webb and La Salle county line. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Encinal | - | Large trees down around Encinal. Reported by NWS Co-op observer. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Encinal | - | Moved a parked truck |
| April 1997 | Hail | Encinal | - | NWS spotter report of golfball sized hail. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Encinal | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Encinal | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Encinal | - | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Hail | Encinal | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artesia Wells | 16.9 miles | 13 | |
| Zamora Acres Colonia | 28.0 miles | 10 | |
| Cotulla | 28.0 miles | 10 | |
| Gardendale | 33.6 miles | 9 | |
| Woodward | 34.0 miles | 8 | |
| Los Angeles | 34.8 miles | 10 | |
| Dull | 35.8 miles | 9 | |
| Millett | 38.2 miles | 9 |
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 Encinal | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q980995 | 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 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.







