Lake Medina Shores, TX

Lake Medina Shores is a census-designated lake community spread across Bandera and Medina counties in south-central Texas. The 2020 census counted 1,110 residents. The community gathers around Medina Lake and Whartons Dock, so its map is made up of long roads, lake-facing sections, and properties managed through a homeowners association. Medina Lake itself was created by a dam built from 1911 to 1913 for irrigation, municipal, industrial, and recreational uses, and the reservoir reaches into Bandera County.

Because it is unincorporated, the Lake Medina Shores Owners Association supplies a shared civic layer for residents, property owners, and renters across the subdivision. Whartons Dock is the useful landmark for understanding the area: it is the named lake access point around which the association and nearby properties orient themselves. The place is defined less by a town center than by the relationship between water, subdivision roads, and the reservoir's changing shoreline. That is the local scoop: the name points to a shoreline community whose shared institutions run along roads, docks, and county lines.