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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.

Medina within Zapata County

Population over time

2 figures

Medina 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.

YearPeople Change
20103,935
20203,953+18 (+0%)

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

108 since 2005

Regional 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/undetermined69
Equipment and vehicle use16
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Debris and open burning8
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Natural1

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 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMEDINA/GRASS FIRE
5 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
3 August 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE ACROSS LIBRARY
3 August 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINCOLN AND 10TH STREET
3 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMEDINA/GRASS FIRE
23 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSANTA MARIA GRASS FIRE
19 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePENA LN. VACANT LOT GRASS FIRE
19 August 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceZAPATA CO WATER WORKS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Zapata 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
Manuel Medina Addition Colonia0.0 miles10
Cuellar Colonia0.3 miles10
Ranchito San Jose Colonia0.5 miles10
Flores Addition Colonia0.6 miles10
Guzman Colonia0.9 miles10
Zapata1.1 miles10
A F Pierce Colonia1.4 miles10
Falcon Shores1.8 miles10

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 Q2236684The 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.