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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.

Aquilla within Hill County

Population over time

3 figures

Aquilla 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.

YearPeople Change
2000136
2010109-27 (-20%)
2020101-8 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

142 since 2006

Regional 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 burning58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined45
Equipment and vehicle use29
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 933
28 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceDAVID SNIPES
21 September 2014Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service432 HCR 2317
17 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
16 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM933
15 September 2013Recreation and ceremony36 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR2126 FIRE
14 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service996 FM 2114
13 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2114

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hill County

Storms near this place

21 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2018HailAquilla$10,000A public report indicated tennis ball sized hail approximately 1.3 miles north-northeast of the city of Aquila, TX.
March 2018HailAquilla$5,000A public report indicated hen-egg sized hail approximately 2 miles southeast of the city of Whitney, TX.
May 2017HailAquilla$1,500Law Enforcement reported via Social Media half dollar size hail in Aquilla.
June 2025Flash FloodAquilla$1,000FM 933 was flooded and closed in the 1300 block south of Aquilla.
May 2017HailAquilla$1,000County official reported half dollar size hail in Aquilla.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindAquilla$100Large tree limbs were blown down.
April 2018HailAquilla-Amateur radio reported quarter sized hail on Hwy 933 in the city of Aquilla, TX.
April 2017Flash FloodAquilla-A trained spotter reported water completely covering Highway 933.
October 2004Flash FloodAquilla-All low lying areas were under water and creeks were flooding.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindAquilla-Trees were blown down by high winds.
June 2000Flash FloodAquilla-Water was reported over F.M. 2114, south of town.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindAquilla-Trees were blown down by high winds.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindAquilla-Sustained winds of 70 mph for 5 to 10 minutes were reported by the public.
March 2013HailAquilla-no account filed
May 2004HailAquilla-no account filed
December 2002HailAquilla-no account filed
May 1998HailAquilla-no account filed
April 1995Thunderstorm WindAquilla-no account filed
April 1995Thunderstorm WindAquilla-no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindAquilla-no account filed
April 1994HailAquilla-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hill County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Menlow3.3 miles15
Tyson3.8 miles15
Lebanon4.0 miles16
Vaughan4.9 miles14
Prairie Valley6.1 miles16
Woodland Hills7.1 miles16
Spivey Crossing7.1 miles16
Abbott8.0 miles14

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 AquillaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977169The 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.