Tehuacana, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Mexia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76686. It stands on Tehuacana Hills. The Survey maps it on the Tehuacana quadrangle. 228 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 640 feet above sea level.
On record in Tehuacana
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
Texas Hall, Old Trinity Universitylisted 1978
Population over time
3 figuresTehuacana fell from 307 to 228 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 | 307 | |
| 2010 | 283 | -24 (-8%) |
| 2020 | 228 | -55 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Groesbeck quadrangle1:62500
- 1960 USGS Tehuacana quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Mexia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
96 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Tehuacana between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,418 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 were 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 | 45 |
| Debris and open burning | 31 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 27 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 26 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 20201591 |
| 26 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 14 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 13 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | M/A HWY 84 MEXIA |
| 9 August 2013 | Fireworks | 31 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 3023 |
| 6 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tehuacana in 9 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Tehuacana | $300,000 | A National Weather Service damage survey crew found evidence of a tornado outside of the city of Mexia, damaging numerous buildings on the campus of the Mexia State Supported Living Center. The warehouse on the south end of the campus suffered the most damage, as the metal building warehouse lost much of its roof and back wall. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tehuacana | $75,000 | Several medium sized tree limbs were knocked down by strong thunderstorm winds. In addition, a large tree was uprooted and fell into a home. Saturated soils are believed to have contributed to the tree falling over under winds below 60 mph. |
| December 2015 | Flash Flood | Tehuacana | $10,000 | Flood waters were reported over some roads in Tehuacana and also at FM 27 and FM 638 between Tehuacana and Wortham. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tehuacana | $3,000 | Multiple trees were reported down across the northeast part of the county. Some trees fell over and blocked roads. |
| February 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tehuacana | $1,000 | A trained spotter reported that a metal roof panel was torn off over an asphalt decking. |
| March 2016 | Flash Flood | Tehuacana | - | Emergency management reported that Plummer's Creek had overrun its banks, and mainly minor street flooding was occurring in the towns of Mexia, Groesbeck and Coolidge. |
| February 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tehuacana | - | A 65 MPH wind gust was estimated 4.5 miles north of Mexia on TX HWY 171. |
| March 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tehuacana | - | A 60 mph wind gust was reported at Highway 171 in Tehuacana. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Tehuacana | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Datura | 3.7 miles | 9 | |
| Mexia | 5.5 miles | 8 | |
| Coolidge | 5.5 miles | 7 | |
| Echols | 6.1 miles | 8 | |
| Sandy | 6.4 miles | 8 | |
| Springfield | 6.6 miles | 8 | |
| Bi-Stone | 7.6 miles | 8 | |
| Forest Glade | 7.7 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 Tehuacana | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981900 | 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 1376406. 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.




