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Fayetteville, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Fayetteville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78940. The Survey maps it on the Fayetteville quadrangle. 246 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 394 feet above sea level.

Fayetteville within Fayette County

On record in Fayetteville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

3 figures

Fayetteville fell from 319 to 246 between 1870 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
1870319
2010258
2020246-12 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

What the histories say of this town

1,589 words

1 chapter about Fayetteville from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

ChapterFrom Length
Fayette County, Her History and Her PeopleFayette County, Her History and Her People (1902)1,589 words

Fires near this place

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Fayetteville between 1998 and 2011, burning about 309 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined96 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUNES MILL ROAD
8 August 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 29
23 August 2010Debris and open burning75 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSANDY LANE
2 August 2001Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 28
8 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCUMMINS STEIN RD
11 June 2008Equipment and vehicle use25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 May 1998Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fayetteville in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2014: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
August 2003Thunderstorm WindFayetteville$100,000Severe thunderstorms moving southward through eastern Fayette County produced damaging winds that blew down trees and power lines from Fayetteville to Schulenburg. Power was lost to nearly 1400 persons for several hours as a result of the storm. One man pumping gas at Schulenburg narrowly avoided injury when winds detached the roof from a store and it landed beside him.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindFayetteville$20,000Trees were blown down by severe winds, blocking FM955 for nearly 1 hour.
November 2014Flash FloodFayetteville-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding sending six inches of water over FM2503 at Brushy Creek leaving ten motorists stranded in the water.
July 2007Flash FloodFayetteville-Scattered thunderstorms produced a general 3 to 4 inch rainfall in eastern Fayette County, which resulted in the closing of SH159, SH237, FM1291, FM955, and FM2714.

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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
Tamberg2.5 miles11
Rek Hill2.5 miles11
Gay Hill4.8 miles10
Ellinger4.9 miles10
Park5.0 miles10
Willow Springs5.7 miles9
Roznov5.7 miles11
Halsted5.8 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 FayettevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981727The 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 1357269. 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.