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Medina, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Medina census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78055. It stands on West Prong Medina River. The Survey maps it on the Rock Cliff Reservoir quadrangle. It stands 1,447 feet above sea level.

Medina within Bandera County

On record in Medina

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Medina between 2006 and 2010, burning about 852 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 burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
6 March 2007Equipment and vehicle use600 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMOFFETT
21 February 2010Debris and open burning100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKROLY ROAD FIRE
16 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 October 2009Debris and open burning150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHILLSIDE IN MEDINA

Every fire recorded in Bandera County

Storms near this place

30 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Medina in 30 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 23 hail, 5 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud, 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
July 2007Flash FloodMedina$100,000Extremely heavy rainfall was reported from eastern Bandera County into northern Medina County. Most parts of eastern Bandera County reported 3 to 4 inches of rain, but the highest amount was in Bandera where up to 8 inches fell. Flash flooding was both widespread and severe, closing SH16, SH173, FM1283 and FM470.
June 2007Flash FloodMedina$10,000Thunderstorms produced 2 to 3 inch totals from Leakey in Real County eastward to Medina and Vanderpool in Bandera County. Highest totals in Bandera County were 5 inches at Vanderpool. FM187 and FM337 were closed to high water, with severe flooding along FM187.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindMedina$2,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 65 mph that knocked down some tree limbs and small poles in Medina.
May 2024HailMedina-A thunderstorm produced hail up to the size of golf balls in Medina.
May 2022HailMedina-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail between Medina and Bandera.
April 2022HailMedina-A thunderstorm produced dime to golf ball size hail in Medina.
April 2022HailMedina-A thunderstorm produced two inch diameter hail in Medina.
April 2022HailMedina-A thunderstorm produced 2.5 inch diameter hail in Medina.
April 2022HailMedina-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail east of Medina.
April 2022HailMedina-A thunderstorm produced 2.5 inch diameter hail in Medina.
May 2020HailMedina-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Medina.
June 2019HailMedina-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in rural Bandera County between Medina and Center Point.
January 2017HailMedina-A thunderstorm produced 2.5 inch hail that broke a sky light in a house.
May 2016Flash FloodMedina-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding sending water from the Medina River over Patterson Ave.
May 2014Flash FloodMedina-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding. Flood waters, filled with debris, closed numerous roads in Medina.
April 2010HailMedina-A thunderstorm produced three quarter to one inch hail which covered the ground.
July 2007Flash FloodMedina-Scattered thunderstorms over Bandera, Real and Uvalde Counties produced from 3 to 4 inches of rain, causing flash flooding of SH16 at FM2107 northwest of Medina.
January 2017HailMedina-no account filed
January 2017HailMedina-no account filed
January 2017HailMedina-no account filed
January 2017HailMedina-no account filed
March 2016HailMedina-no account filed
March 2016HailMedina-no account filed
September 2011HailMedina-no account filed
March 2006HailMedina-no account filed
April 2006HailMedina-no account filed
April 2005HailMedina-no account filed
May 2002HailMedina-no account filed
February 1998HailMedina-no account filed
May 1996Funnel CloudMedina-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bandera 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
Highland Waters6.6 miles9
Tuff8.5 miles9
Tarpley9.8 miles9
Bandera10.4 miles9
English Crossing16.4 miles11
Vanderpool16.7 miles9
Bandera Falls17.1 miles11
Pipe Creek17.2 miles11

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 MedinaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6806884The 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 1362568. 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.