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Yancey is a census-designated place in south central Medina County, on Farm Road 462 about fourteen miles south of Hondo, and is considered part of the San Antonio metropolitan area.

The community was formerly known as Tehuacana and was also called Moss, and it took the name Yancey from Yancey Kilgore and Yancey Strait, the sons of the owners of the townsite lands.

A post office was established at Yancey in 1897, with Benjamin F. Moss as the first postmaster.

By 1914 Yancey had about 350 inhabitants, two general stores, a drug store, a cotton gin, and a blacksmith shop, and the settlement of mostly German American farmers was known for the quality of its peaches, its plums, and its famous Yancey watermelons.

Three small area schools, the Community School, Styles School, and Tehuacana School, were consolidated into one large central school at Yancey in 1912.

Yancey's school became the first school in Medina County to offer courses in vocational agriculture and home economics.

The Yancey United Methodist Church, a Gothic Revival building completed in 1925 after two neighboring Methodist congregations merged, is designated a Texas Historic Landmark.

Yancey's population was estimated at about 202 people for decades, a figure it held from the 1960s through the year 2000.

Yancey was first counted as a census-designated place in the 2020 census, which recorded 300 residents.

Yancey students are now served by the Hondo Independent School District and attend Hondo High School in the county seat.