Sandia, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Orange Grove-Sandia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78383. The Survey maps it on the Sandia quadrangle. 326 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 125 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresSandia fell from 431 to 326 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 431 | |
| 2010 | 379 | -52 (-12%) |
| 2020 | 326 | -53 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1925 USGS Mathis No. 3 quadrangle1:48000
- 1927 USGS Mathis quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Mathis quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Sandia quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
162 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Sandia between 2006 and 2020, burning about 3,811 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined | 66 |
| Debris and open burning | 62 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM JEFF MYERS |
| 5 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1100 FM 1540 |
| 27 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 23 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 359 AND 227 |
| 23 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 70 |
| 20 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 417 JENIFER LOOP |
| 16 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENRY BARAJAS |
| 16 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENRY BARAJAS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sandia in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sandia | $5,000 | Power poles and large trees were blown down in Sandia. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Sandia | - | Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.). |
| May 2025 | Hail | Sandia | - | Off duty NWS employee sends photos and video of hail the largest of which was 2 inches in diameter. |
| October 2018 | Flood | Sandia | - | Releases from Wesley Seale Dam pushed the Nueces River into major flood stream downstream from the dam, affecting Jim Wells County. |
| November 2018 | Flood | Sandia | - | Major flooding continued along the Nueces River due to releases from Lake Corpus Christi. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sandia | - | Trees down...quarter size hail |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sandia | - | Sheriff report of a tractor trailer overturned by strong thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| March 2005 | Hail | Sandia | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Flash Flood | Sandia | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Sandia | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wadeside Addition Colonia | 0.1 miles | 12 | |
| Sandia Gardens Colonia | 0.3 miles | 11 | |
| John L Norris Colonia | 0.3 miles | 12 | |
| Hodges Addition Colonia | 0.5 miles | 12 | |
| Gorbet Estates Colonia | 0.5 miles | 11 | |
| Norris Tract Number 2 Colonia | 0.9 miles | 12 | |
| Shady Acres Colonia | 2.0 miles | 11 | |
| Casa Blanca | 2.0 miles | 12 |
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 Sandia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q978962 | 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 1346565. 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.







