Charlotte, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Charlotte census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78011. The Survey maps it on the Charlotte quadrangle. 1,524 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 541 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCharlotte fell from 1,715 to 1,524 between 2010 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,715 | |
| 2020 | 1,524 | -191 (-11%) |
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
- 1956 USGS Jourdanton quadrangle1:62500
- 1961 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Charlotte quadrangle1:24000
- 1968 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Pleasanton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
103 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Charlotte between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,243 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 51 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 17 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WIER |
| 22 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 97E/1 MILE FROM CHARLOTTE |
| 20 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 1549 @ CR 314 |
| 18 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CALSHEC RANCH |
| 31 August 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FINCH #1 |
| 24 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 1333 #2 |
| 10 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Charlotte in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 8 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Charlotte | $80,000 | A severe thunderstorm damaged several small sheds and took roofs off homes in the Charlotte area. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Charlotte | $20,000 | A bow-shaped thunderstorm system moved rapidly through Atascosa County, producing large hail and damaging winds. Windows were blown out in Jourdanton by large hail, driven horizontally by strong winds. Trees and power lines were knocked down. Mobile homes were overturned near Charlotte. A barn was destroyed near Charlotte. One man asleep in his mobile home was blown into the closet as it was destroyed by the winds. He was not injured. A storage shed company was destroyed; one of the sheds was blown nearly two miles down the road. Also destroyed were a finance company and an aircraft maintenance company. Two mobile homes were destroyed and another dozen damaged in Pleasanton. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Charlotte | $20,000 | A bow-shaped thunderstorm system moved rapidly through Atascosa County, producing large hail and damaging winds. Windows were blown out in Jourdanton by large hail, driven horizontally by strong winds. Trees and power lines were knocked down. Mobile homes were overturned near Charlotte. A barn was destroyed near Charlotte. One man asleep in his mobile home was blown into the closet as it was destroyed by the winds. He was not injured. A storage shed company was destroyed; one of the sheds was blown nearly two miles down the road. Also destroyed were a finance company and an aircraft maintenance company. Two mobile homes were destroyed and another dozen damaged in Pleasanton. |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Charlotte | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Charlotte | $200 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that knocked down some tree limbs in Charlotte. |
| February 2018 | Hail | Charlotte | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail near Charlotte. |
| March 2009 | Hail | Charlotte | - | The Atascosa County Sheriff's Office reported quarter size hail. |
| March 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Charlotte | - | The Atascosa County Sheriff's Office reported an estimated wind gust of 60 mph. |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Charlotte | - | Scattered showers and thunderstorms produced general 1 to 3 inch rain amounts in southeast Frio County and southwest Atascosa County with isolated totals to 5 inches. SH97 and FM140 were closed due to high water. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Charlotte | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Charlotte | - | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Hail | Charlotte | - | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Hail | Charlotte | - | no account filed |
| December 1997 | Hail | Charlotte | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dobrowolski | 4.0 miles | 8 | |
| Davis | 5.1 miles | 10 | |
| Crown | 5.8 miles | 8 | |
| La Parita | 6.1 miles | 8 | |
| Jourdanton | 9.3 miles | 9 | |
| Amphion | 10.1 miles | 8 | |
| Hindes | 10.9 miles | 8 | |
| Christine | 12.2 miles | 9 |
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 Charlotte | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q969862 | 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 1354329. 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.






