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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.

Sandia within Jim Wells County

Population over time

3 figures

Sandia 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.

YearPeople Change
2000431
2010379-52 (-12%)
2020326-53 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

162 since 2006

Regional 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/undetermined66
Debris and open burning62
Equipment and vehicle use20
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1
Other causes1

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
8 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM JEFF MYERS
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1100 FM 1540
27 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 359 AND 227
23 September 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 70
20 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service417 JENIFER LOOP
16 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENRY BARAJAS
16 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENRY BARAJAS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jim Wells County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2010Thunderstorm WindSandia$5,000Power poles and large trees were blown down in Sandia.
May 2025HailSandia-Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.).
May 2025HailSandia-Off duty NWS employee sends photos and video of hail the largest of which was 2 inches in diameter.
October 2018FloodSandia-Releases from Wesley Seale Dam pushed the Nueces River into major flood stream downstream from the dam, affecting Jim Wells County.
November 2018FloodSandia-Major flooding continued along the Nueces River due to releases from Lake Corpus Christi.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindSandia-Trees down...quarter size hail
April 1997Thunderstorm WindSandia-Sheriff report of a tractor trailer overturned by strong thunderstorm wind gusts.
March 2005HailSandia-no account filed
July 2000Flash FloodSandia-no account filed
June 1998HailSandia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jim Wells 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
Wadeside Addition Colonia0.1 miles12
Sandia Gardens Colonia0.3 miles11
John L Norris Colonia0.3 miles12
Hodges Addition Colonia0.5 miles12
Gorbet Estates Colonia0.5 miles11
Norris Tract Number 2 Colonia0.9 miles12
Shady Acres Colonia2.0 miles11
Casa Blanca2.0 miles12

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 SandiaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978962The 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.