Medina, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Zapata census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78076. It lies near Arroyo Valeriano. The Survey maps it on the Zapata quadrangle. 3,953 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 397 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMedina grew from 3,935 to 3,953 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 | 3,935 | |
| 2020 | 3,953 | +18 (+0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 10 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.
- 1949 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Zapata quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Zapata quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Zapata quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
108 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Medina between 2005 and 2019, burning about 697 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 69 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MEDINA/GRASS FIRE |
| 5 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 3 August 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE ACROSS LIBRARY |
| 3 August 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINCOLN AND 10TH STREET |
| 3 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MEDINA/GRASS FIRE |
| 23 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SANTA MARIA GRASS FIRE |
| 19 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PENA LN. VACANT LOT GRASS FIRE |
| 19 August 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ZAPATA CO WATER WORKS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manuel Medina Addition Colonia | 0.0 miles | 10 | |
| Cuellar Colonia | 0.3 miles | 10 | |
| Ranchito San Jose Colonia | 0.5 miles | 10 | |
| Flores Addition Colonia | 0.6 miles | 10 | |
| Guzman Colonia | 0.9 miles | 10 | |
| Zapata | 1.1 miles | 10 | |
| A F Pierce Colonia | 1.4 miles | 10 | |
| Falcon Shores | 1.8 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 Medina | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2236684 | 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 1852735. 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.







