Shiner, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Shiner census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77984. It stands on Boggy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shiner quadrangle. 2,127 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 358 feet above sea level.
On record in Shiner
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Sts. Cyril and Methodius Churchlisted 1983
Population over time
3 figuresShiner grew from 2,070 to 2,127 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 | 2,070 | |
| 2010 | 2,069 | -1 (-0%) |
| 2020 | 2,127 | +58 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Shiner quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Cuero quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
47 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Shiner between 2005 and 2011, burning about 147 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 24 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BROWN FIRE |
| 28 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FLORES FIRE |
| 27 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DOUBLE P |
| 27 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 September 2011 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COOK PLACE |
| 3 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | REGGIE OTHOLD |
| 21 August 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FRANK JRAL |
| 2 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 95 S |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shiner in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shiner | $200,000 | no account filed |
| December 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shiner | $80,000 | Trees were blown over and power lines were knocked down in the northwest part of the county. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shiner | $50,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 58 mph that damaged a railroad crossing arm guard, flipped a boat off its trailer, blew down several trees, and damaged a carport and the metal skirting around a home. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shiner | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shiner | $20,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts, estimated at 50 knots, uprooted some trees and knocked down a barn. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shiner | $20,000 | Severe thunderstorm wind gusts, measured by a co-operative observer at 80 knots, knocked over scores of trees from Shiner to west of Yoakum to Sweet Home. |
| November 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Shiner | $10,000 | A small tornado was observed by Sheriff's Deputies as it touched down just west of Shiner. The tornado knocked over several trees but caused no other damage. |
| January 2024 | Flash Flood | Shiner | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing CR 351, CR 352, CR 344, and 6th St. near and in Shiner. |
| January 2024 | Flash Flood | Shiner | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing CR 351 at Green Dickson Park on Boggy Creek in Shiner. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shiner | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that blew down tree branches in Shiner. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shiner | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that bent a railroad crossing arm, blew down some large trees in the park, and numerous large tree limbs around Shiner. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shiner | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that knocked down several trees and blocked roads in Shiner. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Shiner | - | Thunderstorms over southern Gonzales, northern Lavaca and northern DeWitt Counties produced general 2 to 3 inch rain totals with up to 5 inches near Moulton. Flash flooding closed FM532 and SH95. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Shiner | - | General 2 to 3 inch rain amounts fell in thunderstorms over Lavaca and DeWitt Counties, with up to 5 inches east of Moulton. FM532 and SH95 were closed near Moulton. |
| May 1997 | Flash Flood | Shiner | - | Roads reported closed in and around Shiner due to high water. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Shiner | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Shiner | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Shiner | - | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Shiner | - | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Hail | Shiner | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Shiner | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midway | 4.4 miles | 9 | |
| Mount Olive | 4.5 miles | 9 | |
| Adel | 5.5 miles | 9 | |
| Henkhaus | 5.7 miles | 11 | |
| Wied | 6.1 miles | 9 | |
| Sweet Home | 7.8 miles | 9 | |
| Witting | 8.3 miles | 11 | |
| Worthing | 8.3 miles | 9 |
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 Shiner | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q977222 | 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 1347067. 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.



