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Encino, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Encino census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78353. The Survey maps it on the Encino quadrangle. 109 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 125 feet above sea level.

Encino within Brooks County

Population over time

2 figures

Encino fell from 143 to 109 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
2010143
2020109-34 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

26 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Encino between 2008 and 2020, burning about 15,143 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined11
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
5 September 2015Debris and open burning150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDOUBLE H SPOT RANCH
3 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRACTOR TRAILER TIRE FIRE
26 August 2016Debris and open burning75 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSKIPPER RANCH
19 August 2014Equipment and vehicle use150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLA COPA RANCH FIRE
24 July 2019Debris and open burning181 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLAS CUATAS
25 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
11 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSAN MANUEL FIRE
6 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE 05/06/1840

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brooks County

Storms near this place

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Encino in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 8 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2008Thunderstorm WindEncino$5,000Law enforcement in Brooks County reported power lines down and power outages near Encino due to a thunderstorms moving through the area with high winds.
May 2023HailEncino-Video sent to local media showed estimated quarter to ping pong ball sized hail near Encino in Brooks County.
April 2017HailEncino-Quarter size hail reported in Encino.
April 2012HailEncino-Brooks County Sheriff's Office reported that quarter sized hail fell in Encino.
May 2007Heavy RainEncino-Four to five total inches of rain was reported.
June 2006Flash FloodEncino-Flash flooding was reported near the entrance to the King Ranch after 4 inches of rain fell in a short period of time.
October 2003Flash FloodEncino-A National Weather Service observer reported flash flooding with rising water to the level of the hoods of many automobiles in Encino.
May 2000HailEncino-Lots of nickel size hail or the size of bigger marbles was reported from this storm at Encino. During the early morning hours several hail storms moved across Encino.
March 2000HailEncino-no account filed
May 2000HailEncino-no account filed
May 2000HailEncino-no account filed
February 1998HailEncino-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brooks 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
Rachal3.2 miles10
Tacubaya7.5 miles11
Hartland7.7 miles10
Papalote del Norte9.1 miles8
Noria Willie10.3 miles7
Alto Colorado15.2 miles8
La India16.3 miles8
Cantu Addition Number 1 Colonia18.4 miles8

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 EncinoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981806The 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 1335457. 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.