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San Diego, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the San Diego census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78384. It stands on Rosita Creek. The Survey maps it on the San Diego quadrangle. 3,748 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 308 feet above sea level.

San Diego within Duval County

Population over time

2 figures

San Diego fell from 4,488 to 3,748 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
20104,488
20203,748-740 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

68 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of San Diego between 2005 and 2016, burning about 286 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined55
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
30 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service346 CR. 147
25 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePEREZ FIRE
25 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSAN JOSE FIRE
24 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service18 C.R. 150 / PLOT 2/3 FIRE
1 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service529 WEST SAN DIEGO
23 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service237 CR.147
18 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR.156

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Duval County

Storms near this place

35 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Diego in 35 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 5 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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 2021Thunderstorm WindSan Diego$25,000Damage within San Diego primarily consisted of broken tree limbs and branches with uplift of tin roofing materials occurring at two non-residential buildings. A car port was also blown over at the Duval County Central Appraisal District.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindSan Diego$25,000Wind caused damage to a roof at a park. A fence at a tennis court was damaged. A brick wall collapsed at a museum.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindSan Diego$25,000Several trees were blown down in San Diego. One tree was blown down on to power lines. A trampoline was flung across a yard.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindSan Diego$15,000Roof was blown off a shed onto County Road 103.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindSan Diego$10,000Power lines were blown down near San Diego.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindSan Diego$10,000Large tree limbs were blown down a tin metal roofing was blown off of the San Diego High School bus barn.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindSan Diego$5,000Numerous large trees uprooted through the city of San Diego.
October 2005Thunderstorm WindSan Diego$5,000An NWS storm survey observed roughly a dozen power poles broken, as well as large branches of mesquite trees down, along a 4 to 5 width of Highway 359 between San Diego and Benavides. All the power poles were blown down towards the southeast suggesting straight line wind damage. Winds were estimated between 80 and 100 mph.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindSan Diego-Photos received on social media of a collapsed metal building structure.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindSan Diego-Video recording of metal shed/garage blown over with damage to farming equipment/vehicles. Time estimated off radar. Estimated 70 mph.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindSan Diego-Carport had collapsed with metal roofing partially removed. Fascia material blown from Service Station Canopy (SSC).
November 2025HailSan Diego-Hail size was estimated.
May 2024HailSan Diego-Multiple photos and reports of quarter size hail in San Diego.
May 2023HailSan Diego-Public relayed a report of large hail through Facebook. Hail up to the size of limes fell near County Road 303 and Highway 44.
July 2023Flash FloodSan Diego-Report received through Facebook of 6 inches of rainfall caused flooding of roads around San Diego.
July 2021Flash FloodSan Diego-Multiple roads around San Diego had water covering the roadways.
April 2015Funnel CloudSan Diego-Storm chaser provided video showing a funnel cloud extending more than half way to the ground for several minutes as the storm passed just north of San Diego.
October 2015Flash FloodSan Diego-Several streets were flooded within the city of San Diego.
September 2010FloodSan Diego-Water over the road on State Highway 44 near San Diego.
April 2009HailSan Diego-Nickle size hail reported for 20 minutes in San Diego.
February 2008HailSan Diego-Lots of pea size hail fell, in adddition to a few large hail stones.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindSan Diego-Trailer lifted off blocks by wind and damaged. Wind gust magnitude and time are rough estimates.
June 2006Flash FloodSan Diego-Heavy rainfall left most city streets impassable, with two feet of water covering many of them.
July 2005Tornado (F0)San Diego-This tornado formed approximately 8 miles north of Alice in Jim Wells County and entered Duval County, according to law enforcement reports and radar data, approximately 11 miles north of San Diego. The tornado continued northwest for roughly another 2 miles before finally dissipating. Damage with this tornado across Duval County was limited to trees and vegetation. This tornado formed in the outer rainbands of Hurricane Emily.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindSan Diego-Golfball size hail
February 1998Tornado (F0)San Diego-Department of Public Safety report of a tornado.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindSan Diego-Skywarn spotter report of several large trees uprooted by thunderstorm wind and torrential downpours.
December 1995HailSan Diego-Sheriff's department and public report hail.
April 2006HailSan Diego-no account filed
December 2002HailSan Diego-no account filed
November 2001HailSan Diego-no account filed
March 1998HailSan Diego-no account filed
March 1997HailSan Diego-no account filed
April 1997Flash FloodSan Diego-no account filed
April 1995HailSan Diego-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Duval 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
County Road 111 Colonia0.6 miles8
Mi Tierra Colonia0.8 miles8
Cadena Colonia0.8 miles7
North Buena Vista Colonia1.4 miles7
Buena Vista Colonia1.5 miles7
La Masa Road Colonia1.8 miles7
Four A's Colonia2.7 miles7
Rosita10.3 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 San DiegoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q979834The 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 1346324. 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.