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Falls City, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Falls City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78113. It stands on Marcelinas Creek. The Survey maps it on the Falls City quadrangle. 514 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 308 feet above sea level.

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Falls City within Karnes County

Population over time

3 figures

Falls City fell from 591 to 514 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
2000591
2010611+20 (+3%)
2020514-97 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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

37 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Falls City between 2006 and 2020, burning about 163 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
Equipment and vehicle use20
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
23 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTXDOT US181/CR219
22 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDANIEL OLINICK
31 August 2019Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRIO GRANDE RESOURCES
30 August 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePLAINS EXPLORATION - CR219
26 August 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKEVIN & LISA LABUS
25 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTALLION PRODUCTION SERVICES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Karnes County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Falls City: 9 past producers, 7 producers, 2 occurrences. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Molybdenum, Selenium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Panna Maria West MineUranium, Molybdenum, SeleniumPast ProducerStratabound
Brysch PitUraniumProducer
Brysch ProspectUraniumOccurrenceStratabound
E. Labus MineUraniumProducer
Fort Worth National MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Ft Worth Natl PitUraniumProducer
Hobson In Situ Uranium ProjUraniumProducer
Jaskinia ProspectUraniumOccurrenceStratabound
Kopecki MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Labus-Hoffman MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound

Every working recorded in Karnes County

Storms near this place

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Falls City in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 4 hail, 3 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
December 2024HailFalls City-A thunderstorm produced 2.5 inch diameter hail in Falls City.
February 2018Thunderstorm WindFalls City-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that blew over a grain bin and some yard fixtures near Falls City.
February 2018HailFalls City-A thunderstorm produced one inch hail in Falls City.
July 2007FloodFalls City-Cibolo Creek at Falls City crested at 26.6 ft on 07/22 at 0245cst where flood stage is 17 ft.
March 2007FloodFalls City-Cibolo Creek near Falls City crested at 26.26 ft at 1800 CST on March 13, where flood stage is 17 ft.
July 2007Flash FloodFalls City-A cluster of thunderstorms over Fayette, Gonzales, Karnes, DeWitt, and Lavaca Counties produced general 1 to 2 inch rainfall with up to 5 inches near Coy City. FM99 and FM791 were closed due to flash flooding.
July 2007FloodFalls City-The San Antonio River at Falls City crested at 17.0 ft on July 27 at 4:45 PM CST, where flood stage is 12 ft.
April 2015HailFalls City-no account filed
March 2000HailFalls City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Karnes 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
Hobson2.4 miles9
Conquista Crossing3.5 miles12
Mays Crossing3.5 miles12
Cestohowa4.8 miles10
Pawelekville6.6 miles10
Panna Maria6.6 miles9
Mayo7.3 miles9
Deweesville7.9 miles12

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 Falls CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q975289The 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 1357209. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.