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Santa Anna, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Santa Anna census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76878. It stands on Santa Anna Mountains. The Survey maps it on the Santa Anna quadrangle. 1,014 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,755 feet above sea level.

Santa Anna within Coleman County

Population over time

2 figures

Santa Anna fell from 1,099 to 1,014 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
20101,099
20201,014-85 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

58 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Santa Anna between 2003 and 2020, burning about 3,215 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use15
Debris and open burning15
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2015 FM 1176
30 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2009Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRUSTY WELLS
4 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2010Debris and open burning40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR119 & CR122
23 August 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceAVE. C
19 August 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBASS
19 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coleman County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Santa Anna: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Baker-1CopperOccurrence
UnknownSilicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Coleman County

Storms near this place

32 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Santa Anna in 32 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 24 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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 2019HailSanta Anna$500,000A trained spotter reported golf ball to slightly larger hail falling in Santa Anna, off of Main Street.
December 2004Tornado (F0)Santa Anna$250,000no account filed
November 1996Thunderstorm WindSanta Anna$50,000no account filed
November 1996HailSanta Anna$25,000no account filed
November 2004Thunderstorm WindSanta Anna$7,000Power lines were blown down in the Santa Ana area.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindSanta Anna$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines.
May 2024HailSanta Anna-A trained spotter reported golf ball size hail. In addition, the local fire department chief reported hail damage to a stoplight.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindSanta Anna-Public reported lots of tree limbs down. The wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
May 2024HailSanta Anna-Public reported quarter size hail.
May 2024HailSanta Anna-Public reported lots of quarter size to ping pong ball size hail covering the ground.
May 2024HailSanta Anna-A storm chaser reported apple size hail in Santa Anna. Also, the very large hail caused some damage.
May 2024HailSanta Anna-Public reported quarter size hail on social media. Time estimated from radar.
April 2023HailSanta Anna-The public reported golf ball size hail 3.5 miles south of Santa Ana.
May 2022HailSanta Anna-The public reported golf ball size hail 6 miles south of Santa Anna.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindSanta Anna-A Trained Spotter reported a power pole thrown into a field.
June 2019HailSanta Anna-A trained spotter reported 1 inch hail and estimated winds of 40 to 50 mph.
June 2019HailSanta Anna-A trained spotter reported quarter size hail in Santa Anna.
June 2019HailSanta Anna-The Coleman County Emergency Manager reported lots of windows and windshields blown out due to wind driven hail. People in their vehicles sustained injuries from windows blowing out.
April 2017Flash FloodSanta Anna-A National Weather Service Employee reported water flowing over the roadway near the Dairy Queen in the town of Santa Anna.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindSanta Anna-A storm chaser measured a thunderstorm wind gust at 62 mph about 1 mile northeast of Santa Anna.
April 2017HailSanta Anna-no account filed
April 2017HailSanta Anna-no account filed
April 2017HailSanta Anna-no account filed
April 2015HailSanta Anna-no account filed
June 2011HailSanta Anna-no account filed
May 2009HailSanta Anna-no account filed
May 2006HailSanta Anna-no account filed
March 2001HailSanta Anna-no account filed
October 2001HailSanta Anna-no account filed
October 2001HailSanta Anna-no account filed
April 1995HailSanta Anna-no account filed
April 1993HailSanta Anna-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coleman 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
San Angelo Junction3.4 miles13
Liberty4.9 miles14
Obregon4.9 miles14
Cleveland5.8 miles13
Buffalo6.9 miles15
Coleman8.1 miles13
Fisk10.1 miles13
Hamrick11.6 miles13

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 Santa AnnaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q979721The 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 1346618. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.