Medina Dam

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Medina Dam is a hollow-masonry type dam built in 1911 and 1912 by the Medina Irrigation Company in what became Mico, Texas, USA. Medina Lake extends north of it in northeastern Medina County and southeastern Bandera County.”
Wikipedia article Medina Dam, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Medina County · listed in 1976 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. N of Castroville on the Medina River, Castroville, 78056
When was it listed? March 1976
Category. structure
Census division. Hondo
National Register reference number. 76002050 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

46 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Medina Dam between 2006 and 2014, burning about 288 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Arson/incendiarism	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
6 September 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	UNCONTROLLED BURN
27 August 2013	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 2651
22 August 2008	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
16 August 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRUSH FIRE
26 July 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONTR. BURM RE-IGNITE
25 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM1283/CR271
23 July 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 1283

Every fire recorded in Medina County

Storms near this property

22 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Castroville, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 10 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 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
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Castroville	$850,000	Severe thunderstorm winds struck just east of Castroville and moved southwestward through the town. Damage was first indicated approximately 2 miles east of Castroville, along the north side of US90, where 8 to 10 telephone poles had been snapped near the base. The estimated wind gusts at this point were between 80 to 100 miles per hour. The damage path was between one-quarter and one-half mile in width, with no indication of rotation or twisting. The storm continued to move toward the southwest where it damaged several mobile homes in the valley mobile home park along FM471. Much of the damage was minor, and confined to outbuildings. Numerous trees were damaged or uprooted, with limbs up to 8 inches in diameter snapped off. Several vehicle were also damaged. Wind gusts in this area were estimated in the 50 to 60 mile per hour range. As the storm continued southwestward into the Castroville area, it struck a little league baseball field complex north of the Castroville Airport. Here chain link fence was bent over in sections along the outfield fence line. Only the sections with plywood signs attached were damaged. The severe winds continued southwestward to the Airport, where they destroyed most of the The Fixed Base Operator hanger, and damaged or destroyed five aircraft and equipment housed inside hanger. Several adjacent hangers located at the airport received minor or no damage. Estimated damages from the downburst were $250,000 to aircraft, $100,000 to the hangars, and $500,000 to equipment.
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Castroville	$500,000	Thunderstorms moving eastward through Medina County produced widespread wind damage. The Red Cross reported that 32 homes were destroyed, 44 had major damage, and 194 homes had minor damage. Numerous mobile homes suffered roof and wall damage. The city of Castroville was without power from 1639 CST until 0530 CST the next morning. Very heavy rain accompanied the storms, reducing visibility to near zero. Some of the residents reported a dark green color to the clouds just before the storm stuck. Although no large hail was reported, the hail piled into drifts along the side of the road just west of D'Hanis. Very little damage was reported at the Castroville Airport as most aircraft were tied down or put away at the time of the storms.
August 2007	Flash Flood	Castroville	$150,000	Extremely heavy rainfall associated with Erin spread into the east and north sections of Medina County. General rain totals in this area were between 3 and 5 inches, with up to 8 inches reported around Castroville and near the Bandera County line south of Tarpley. Most county roads north of US90 were closed due to high water.
April 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Castroville	$100,000	A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that flipped a Recreation Vehicle, uprooted several trees, blew down fences, and twisted irrigation pipes around Castroville.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Castroville	$100,000	Severe thunderstorm winds blew down trees and damaged roofs in Castroville.
March 2004	Flash Flood	Castroville	$3,000	The showers and thunderstorms moved into Medina County near 930 CST, with most sections of the county receiving around one-half inch of rain. The heaviest amounts were in the Castroville area where up to 2 inches of rain was reported. Roads around Castroville were closed in the mid morning due to flash flooding.
August 2003	Tornado (F1)	Castroville	$3,000	The tornado touched down very near the Fixed Base Operator hanger, where rotation was noted in a path up to 30 yards wide. The damage path was in a northeast to southwest direction which was the same track of the straight line winds. This short lived tornado was estimated to have reached F1 intensity and was likely on the ground for only a few seconds. Several witnesses in adjacent hangers described the sound of a loud train as the tornado hit the airport. Four men narrowly escaped injury by ducking for cover between two couches as it struck.
May 2022	Hail	Castroville	-	A thunderstorm produced penny size hail in Castroville.
April 2022	Hail	Castroville	-	A thunderstorm produced penny size hail in Castroville.
April 2021	Hail	Castroville	-	A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail northwest of Castroville.
May 2016	Hail	Castroville	-	A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail in Castroville.
May 2010	Flash Flood	Castroville	-	Thunderstorms produced heavy rain which flooded and closed several low water crossings in Castroville.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Castroville	-	Thunderstorms in eastern Medina County produced rain totals of 3 to 4 inches, causing flash flooding that closed FM1343 and SH173 closed.
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Castroville	-	As the severe thunderstorms continued eastward across central Medina County, they produced additional severe winds that struck the town of Castroville and continued just east of Castroville. Damage was reported near the Castroville Airport as trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2004	Flash Flood	Castroville	-	Heavy rain over Medina County produced totals near 3 inches between Castroville and Rio Medina. FM1957 was closed due to flash flooding.
September 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Castroville	-	Trees down due to high winds. Damage was also reported to outbuildings.
May 2016	Hail	Castroville	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Castroville	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Castroville	-	no account filed
March 2002	Hail	Castroville	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Castroville	-	no account filed
February 1998	Hail	Castroville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Medina County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76002050 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Medina County	All 9 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.