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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.

Tehuacana within Limestone County

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

Population over time

3 figures

Tehuacana 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.

YearPeople Change
2000307
2010283-24 (-8%)
2020228-55 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

96 since 2005

Regional 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/undetermined45
Debris and open burning31
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural2
Fireworks1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
29 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
26 September 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service20201591
26 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceM/A HWY 84 MEXIA
9 August 2013Fireworks31 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3023
6 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone County

Storms near this place

9 since 2008

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2017Tornado (EF0)Tehuacana$300,000A 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 2019Thunderstorm WindTehuacana$75,000Several 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 2015Flash FloodTehuacana$10,000Flood waters were reported over some roads in Tehuacana and also at FM 27 and FM 638 between Tehuacana and Wortham.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindTehuacana$3,000Multiple trees were reported down across the northeast part of the county. Some trees fell over and blocked roads.
February 2017Thunderstorm WindTehuacana$1,000A trained spotter reported that a metal roof panel was torn off over an asphalt decking.
March 2016Flash FloodTehuacana-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 2009Thunderstorm WindTehuacana-A 65 MPH wind gust was estimated 4.5 miles north of Mexia on TX HWY 171.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindTehuacana-A 60 mph wind gust was reported at Highway 171 in Tehuacana.
April 2017HailTehuacana-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Limestone 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
Datura3.7 miles9
Mexia5.5 miles8
Coolidge5.5 miles7
Echols6.1 miles8
Sandy6.4 miles8
Springfield6.6 miles8
Bi-Stone7.6 miles8
Forest Glade7.7 miles9

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 TehuacanaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981900The 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.