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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.

Yancey within Medina County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

62 since 2006

Regional 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 burning27
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
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
29 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2009Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service36
27 August 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 August 2019Debris and open burning14 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDUSTY ROAD
1 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceW FM 462
1 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 July 2008Debris and open burning17 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Medina County

Storms near this place

15 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2006HailYancey$400,000Hail 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 2002Tornado (F2)Yancey$200,000As 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 1999Thunderstorm WindYancey$50,000no account filed
March 1998Thunderstorm WindYancey$40,000A severe thunderstorm destroyed two mobile homes near Yancey. No injuries were reported.
May 2024HailYancey-A thunderstorm produced nickel to quarter size hail near Yancey.
April 2022HailYancey-A thunderstorm produced three inch diameter hail in Yancey.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindYancey-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts measured at 70 mph in Yancey.
March 2009HailYancey-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in the Yancey area.
March 2009HailYancey-A thunderstorm produced penny size hail north of Yancey.
July 2007Flash FloodYancey-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 2007Flash FloodYancey-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 2009HailYancey-no account filed
May 2009HailYancey-no account filed
April 2007HailYancey-no account filed
April 2000HailYancey-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Medina 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
Biry8.8 miles7
Devine12.7 miles10
Hondo14.4 miles9
D'Hanis15.0 miles9
Natalia15.4 miles10
Noonan15.7 miles9
Dunlay16.6 miles9
Pearson17.2 miles10

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 YanceyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3477767The 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.