Austwell, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Austwell-Tivoli census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77950. The Survey maps it on the Austwell quadrangle. 118 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 23 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresAustwell fell from 192 to 118 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 | 192 | |
| 2010 | 147 | -45 (-23%) |
| 2020 | 118 | -29 (-20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1952 USGS Austwell quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS San Antonio Bay quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Austwell between 1995 and 2020, burning about 25 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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 | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Aransas National Wildlife Refuge | TOBIAS 2 |
| 18 July 2009 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Aransas National Wildlife Refuge | KUBECKA FIRE |
| 22 May 2008 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Aransas National Wildlife Refuge | TOBIAS FIRE |
| 15 May 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Aransas National Wildlife Refuge | TRACTOR |
| 8 February 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 75 |
| 26 February 2006 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Austwell in 11 storm reports between 2009 and 2021: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2015 | Hail | Austwell | $250,000 | Wind blown golf ball sized hail caused damage to many windows in businesses and homes in Austwell. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Austwell | $100,000 | A metal garage was blown over. Large trees were blown down along with numerous power lines through much of the community of Austwell. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Austwell | $100,000 | NWS storm survey conducted along with the Emergency Manager and County Sheriff concluded straight line winds caused damage in the tiny fishing village of Hopper's Landing. A pavilion was blown into the bay. Very large trees were blown down. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Austwell | $50,000 | Wind blown tennis ball sized hail destroyed windows and siding in Hopper's Landing. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Austwell | $10,000 | Quarter sized hail occurred in Austwell. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Austwell | $10,000 | Golf ball sized hail reported by Austwell Postmaster. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Austwell | - | Observer estimated wind gust to near 60 MPH near Austwell. |
| July 2021 | Heavy Rain | Austwell | - | Damage estimates due to sorghum losses in the county were at 7.011 million dollars across the county due to heavy rainfall. A 40 percent loss occurred with the sorghum crop. |
| August 2017 | Flood | Austwell | - | USGS survey showed flood waters reached 2 to 3 feet across portions of eastern Refugio County. Floodwaters inundated portions of Highway 35 south of Tivoli. Radar data estimated 15 to 20 inches of rain occurred in this region. |
| December 2012 | Hail | Austwell | - | CoCoRaHS observer reported dime sized hail occurred in Austwell. |
| April 2009 | Heavy Rain | Austwell | - | A CoCoRaHS observer in Austwell recorded 3.91 inches of rainfall. |
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.
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 Austwell | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q784018 | 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 1329871. 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.




