Yancey, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Hondo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78886. The Survey maps it on the Yancey quadrangle. 300 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 692 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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 San Antonio quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Yancey quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Uvalde quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Uvalde quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
62 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Yancey between 2006 and 2019, burning about 6,092 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 27 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 2008 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 36 |
| 27 August 2006 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 15 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | 14 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DUSTY ROAD |
| 1 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | W FM 462 |
| 1 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 July 2008 | Debris and open burning | 17 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 15 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yancey in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 9 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2006 | Hail | Yancey | $400,000 | Hail to the size of baseballs punched holes in walls, damaging more than 30 homes and mobile homes in the Yancey area. Some of the hail went through the walls and into the interiors of the mobile homes. |
| April 2002 | Tornado (F2) | Yancey | $200,000 | As a new supercell formed in southern Medina County and tracked eastward, it spawned an F2 tornado just west of the small community of Yancey. This was very close to the the site where a devastating F3 killer tornado had struck almost exactly 27 years earlier. This tornado touched down along County Road 731, destroying two homes. It moved toward the northeast for one mile, damaging two other homes and a mobile home while rolling over a car and knocking down several large trees. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yancey | $50,000 | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yancey | $40,000 | A severe thunderstorm destroyed two mobile homes near Yancey. No injuries were reported. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Yancey | - | A thunderstorm produced nickel to quarter size hail near Yancey. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Yancey | - | A thunderstorm produced three inch diameter hail in Yancey. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yancey | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts measured at 70 mph in Yancey. |
| March 2009 | Hail | Yancey | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in the Yancey area. |
| March 2009 | Hail | Yancey | - | A thunderstorm produced penny size hail north of Yancey. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Yancey | - | During the early morning, thunderstorms spread from both Uvalde and Frio Counties into Medina County. The storms produced a general 2 to 3 inch rain across Frio County, with up to 5 inches just west of Devine. FM2200 and FM462 were closed due to high water. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Yancey | - | A general 2 to 3 inch rain fell over eastern Medina County, with as much as 5 inches around Riomedina. FM1957 and FM471 were closed due to high water. |
| May 2009 | Hail | Yancey | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Yancey | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Yancey | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Yancey | - | 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.
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 Yancey | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3477767 | 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 1372004. 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.




