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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.

Batesville within Zavala County

Population over time

3 figures

Batesville 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.

YearPeople Change
20001,298
20101,068-230 (-18%)
2020787-281 (-26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 8 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

2 since 2019

Regional 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 burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
16 August 2019Debris and open burning94 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGH FENCE
28 January 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGIN 57

Every fire recorded in Zavala County

Storms near this place

18 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 1993HailBatesville$5,000,000The sheriff's office reported golfball-size hail in the Batesville area. Over 200 homes and a school had windows broken out.
March 2002Thunderstorm WindBatesville$50,000Trees were blown down and windows were broken in the northeast part of Zavala County from Batesville to the Uvalde and Frio County lines.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindBatesville$30,000Severe thunderstorm winds blew down numerous utility poles.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindBatesville$20,000Severe thunderstorm winds blew down power lines and caused minor property damage just east of Batesville.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindBatesville$1,000A tree was reported down blocking Ramos Street in the city of Batesville.
May 2024HailBatesville-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail north of Batesville.
May 2024HailBatesville-A thunderstorm produced hail larger than baseballs north of Batesville. The Emergency Manager sent a picture of the hailstones.
September 2017Flash FloodBatesville-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing several roads in northern Zavala County including FM 117 and FM 140.
September 2017Flash FloodBatesville-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing CR 1866 at the Leona River southeast of Batesville.
May 2015Flash FloodBatesville-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing RM 187.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindBatesville-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 2007Thunderstorm WindBatesville-Severe thunderstorm winds blew down several trees in Batesville.
March 1999Tornado (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 1998HailBatesville-Hail was piled up to 5 inches deep and destroyed 4500 acres of onions.
May 2006HailBatesville-no account filed
November 2004HailBatesville-no account filed
March 1999HailBatesville-no account filed
June 1997HailBatesville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Zavala 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
La Pryor12.3 miles9
Loma Vista12.6 miles8
Nueces Campsite Lots Colonia15.5 miles9
Las Colonias18.9 miles10
Bee Crest Colonia19.2 miles10
Loma Grande Colonia19.5 miles10
Triangula Colonia19.7 miles10
Amaya Colonia20.2 miles10

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 BatesvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977742The 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.