Aquilla, Texas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Whitney census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76622. It stands on Dead Horse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Aquilla quadrangle. 101 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 522 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresAquilla fell from 136 to 101 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 136 | |
| 2010 | 109 | -27 (-20%) |
| 2020 | 101 | -8 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1892 USGS Waco quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1920 USGS Waco quadrangle1:125000
- 1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Aquilla quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Waco quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
142 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Aquilla between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,400 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning | 58 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 45 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 29 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 933 |
| 28 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | DAVID SNIPES |
| 21 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 432 HCR 2317 |
| 17 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 16 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM933 |
| 15 September 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | 36 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR2126 FIRE |
| 14 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 996 FM 2114 |
| 13 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 2114 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aquilla in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 10 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2018 | Hail | Aquilla | $10,000 | A public report indicated tennis ball sized hail approximately 1.3 miles north-northeast of the city of Aquila, TX. |
| March 2018 | Hail | Aquilla | $5,000 | A public report indicated hen-egg sized hail approximately 2 miles southeast of the city of Whitney, TX. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Aquilla | $1,500 | Law Enforcement reported via Social Media half dollar size hail in Aquilla. |
| June 2025 | Flash Flood | Aquilla | $1,000 | FM 933 was flooded and closed in the 1300 block south of Aquilla. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Aquilla | $1,000 | County official reported half dollar size hail in Aquilla. |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aquilla | $100 | Large tree limbs were blown down. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Aquilla | - | Amateur radio reported quarter sized hail on Hwy 933 in the city of Aquilla, TX. |
| April 2017 | Flash Flood | Aquilla | - | A trained spotter reported water completely covering Highway 933. |
| October 2004 | Flash Flood | Aquilla | - | All low lying areas were under water and creeks were flooding. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aquilla | - | Trees were blown down by high winds. |
| June 2000 | Flash Flood | Aquilla | - | Water was reported over F.M. 2114, south of town. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aquilla | - | Trees were blown down by high winds. |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aquilla | - | Sustained winds of 70 mph for 5 to 10 minutes were reported by the public. |
| March 2013 | Hail | Aquilla | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Aquilla | - | no account filed |
| December 2002 | Hail | Aquilla | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Aquilla | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aquilla | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aquilla | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aquilla | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Aquilla | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Menlow | 3.3 miles | 15 | |
| Tyson | 3.8 miles | 15 | |
| Lebanon | 4.0 miles | 16 | |
| Vaughan | 4.9 miles | 14 | |
| Prairie Valley | 6.1 miles | 16 | |
| Woodland Hills | 7.1 miles | 16 | |
| Spivey Crossing | 7.1 miles | 16 | |
| Abbott | 8.0 miles | 14 |
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 Aquilla | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q977169 | The 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 1329645. 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.





