Batesville, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Batesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78829. It stands on Gallina Creek. The Survey maps it on the Batesville quadrangle. 787 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 705 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresBatesville fell from 1,298 to 787 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 | 1,298 | |
| 2010 | 1,068 | -230 (-18%) |
| 2020 | 787 | -281 (-26%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1953 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Batesville quadrangle1:62500
- 1961 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Batesville quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Batesville between 2019 and 2020, burning about 139 acres in total. None 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | 94 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HIGH FENCE |
| 28 January 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 45 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GIN 57 |
Storms near this place
18 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Batesville in 18 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 1993 | Hail | Batesville | $5,000,000 | The sheriff's office reported golfball-size hail in the Batesville area. Over 200 homes and a school had windows broken out. |
| March 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Batesville | $50,000 | Trees were blown down and windows were broken in the northeast part of Zavala County from Batesville to the Uvalde and Frio County lines. |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Batesville | $30,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds blew down numerous utility poles. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Batesville | $20,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds blew down power lines and caused minor property damage just east of Batesville. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Batesville | $1,000 | A tree was reported down blocking Ramos Street in the city of Batesville. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Batesville | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail north of Batesville. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Batesville | - | A thunderstorm produced hail larger than baseballs north of Batesville. The Emergency Manager sent a picture of the hailstones. |
| September 2017 | Flash Flood | Batesville | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing several roads in northern Zavala County including FM 117 and FM 140. |
| September 2017 | Flash Flood | Batesville | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing CR 1866 at the Leona River southeast of Batesville. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Batesville | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing RM 187. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Batesville | - | Media video depicted wind damage to trees, powerlines, roofs, and irrigation equipment in and near the town of Batesville. Time is estimated from radar. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Batesville | - | Severe thunderstorm winds blew down several trees in Batesville. |
| March 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Batesville | - | A chaser spotted the tornado as it formed in open country just southeast of Batesville. It was small and lived for only about one minute. |
| February 1998 | Hail | Batesville | - | Hail was piled up to 5 inches deep and destroyed 4500 acres of onions. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Batesville | - | no account filed |
| November 2004 | Hail | Batesville | - | no account filed |
| March 1999 | Hail | Batesville | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Batesville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Pryor | 12.3 miles | 9 | |
| Loma Vista | 12.6 miles | 8 | |
| Nueces Campsite Lots Colonia | 15.5 miles | 9 | |
| Las Colonias | 18.9 miles | 10 | |
| Bee Crest Colonia | 19.2 miles | 10 | |
| Loma Grande Colonia | 19.5 miles | 10 | |
| Triangula Colonia | 19.7 miles | 10 | |
| Amaya Colonia | 20.2 miles | 10 |
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 Batesville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q977742 | 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 1351592. 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.






