Quihi Is a Small-Place Thread You Can Still Follow

Quihi sits where Farm Road 2676 meets Quihi Creek, nine miles northeast of Hondo. It was laid out near Quihi Lake in 1845, and ten Alsatian families from Castro's colony arrived the next year. The name comes from the quichie or keechie, a white-necked Mexican eagle buzzard.

The community stayed small, but its civic pieces have long memories. Bethlehem Lutheran Church was organized in 1852, a post office opened in 1854, and a public school opened in 1874. A new school building went up two miles west of the community in 1907, then became a community center after the school closed in the 1930s.

Quihi also kept a social life that did not need a large population to matter. Residents formed the Quihi Schuetzen Verein in 1890. By 1994 it was known as the Quihi Gun Club and drew members from across Medina County. That local thread keeps the county from reading as four bigger names and open road. Quihi adds creek, church, schoolhouse, and club memory to the map.