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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.

Charlotte within Atascosa County

Population over time

2 figures

Charlotte 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,715
20201,524-191 (-11%)

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

103 since 2005

Regional 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/undetermined51
Equipment and vehicle use24
Debris and open burning17
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Smoking1

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
6 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWIER
22 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 97E/1 MILE FROM CHARLOTTE
20 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1549 @ CR 314
18 September 2015Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCALSHEC RANCH
31 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFINCH #1
24 August 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1333 #2
10 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Atascosa County

Storms near this place

14 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 1998Thunderstorm WindCharlotte$80,000A severe thunderstorm damaged several small sheds and took roofs off homes in the Charlotte area.
May 1995HailCharlotte$20,000A 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 1995Thunderstorm WindCharlotte$20,000A 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 1996Thunderstorm WindCharlotte$10,000no account filed
April 2021Thunderstorm WindCharlotte$200A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that knocked down some tree limbs in Charlotte.
February 2018HailCharlotte-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail near Charlotte.
March 2009HailCharlotte-The Atascosa County Sheriff's Office reported quarter size hail.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindCharlotte-The Atascosa County Sheriff's Office reported an estimated wind gust of 60 mph.
May 2007Flash FloodCharlotte-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 2016HailCharlotte-no account filed
April 2006HailCharlotte-no account filed
February 1998HailCharlotte-no account filed
February 1998HailCharlotte-no account filed
December 1997HailCharlotte-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Atascosa 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
Dobrowolski4.0 miles8
Davis5.1 miles10
Crown5.8 miles8
La Parita6.1 miles8
Jourdanton9.3 miles9
Amphion10.1 miles8
Hindes10.9 miles8
Christine12.2 miles9

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 CharlotteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969862The 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.