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Natalia, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Devine-Natalia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78059. It stands on Fort Ewell Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lytle quadrangle. 1,202 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 686 feet above sea level.

Natalia within Medina County

Population over time

3 figures

Natalia fell from 1,663 to 1,202 between 2000 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
20001,663
20101,431-232 (-14%)
20201,202-229 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

261 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 261 fires within 5 miles of Natalia between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,214 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/undetermined139
Debris and open burning88
Equipment and vehicle use23
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH/GRASS FIRE CR 777
8 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVEHICLE/GRASS FIRE 502 CR 6612
7 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE M/M 123 INTERSTATE 35
28 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE/CAR FIRE MUTUAL AID NATALIA CANCELED
28 September 2008Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
26 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Medina County

Storms near this place

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Natalia in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 5 hail, 3 tornado, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2006Thunderstorm WindNatalia$100,000Severe thunderstorm winds blew over goal posts Natalia High School and damaged the roofs of homes.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindNatalia$10,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that downed power lines and trees in Natalia.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindNatalia-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that downed tree limbs up to 3 inches in diameter on CR 6716 in Natalia.
March 2012Tornado (EF1)Natalia-A supercell thunderstorm moved through southeastern Medina County and into southwestern Bexar County and produced three tornadoes. The first tornado touched down in Devine, the second in Natalia, and the third in Bexar County. The tornadoes in Medina County destroyed 14 homes, caused major damage on 11 others, and minor damage on seven. Ten people were injured by these storms in Medina County.
September 2010Flash FloodNatalia-Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Hermine produced flash flooding which closed FM463, FM471, and FM462.
September 2010Flash FloodNatalia-Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Hermine produced flash flooding on Black Creek and Francisco Creek and in the cities of Devine and Natalia where multiple homes were flooded and there were water rescues on County Road 6714 and FM471. In addition the flooding closed FM463 and FM471.
March 2009HailNatalia-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in the Natalia area.
March 2009HailNatalia-A thunderstorm produced hail ranging from penny to golf ball size in the Natalia and Lytle area.
March 2002Tornado (F1)Natalia-A small and short-lived tornado struck very near a house in the Natalia area. It destroyed a large oak tree that had been determined to be an historic location. Researchers had documented that this was the tree under which General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna Perez de Lebron had camped when he and his troops rested on the banks of Chacon Creek during his march on the Alamo in March of 1836.
May 2021HailNatalia-no account filed
May 2006HailNatalia-no account filed
May 2006HailNatalia-no account filed
February 1998Tornado (F0)Natalia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Medina 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
Coal Mine3.7 miles10
Devine4.1 miles10
Pearson5.6 miles10
Noonan5.9 miles9
Biry8.5 miles7
La Coste8.8 miles10
Castroville11.5 miles9
Dunlay12.9 miles9

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 NataliaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1019462The 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 1363602. 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.