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.
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
Fayetteville Historic Districtlisted 2008
Zapp Buildinglisted 1983
Population over time
3 figuresFayetteville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1870 | 319 | |
| 2010 | 258 | |
| 2020 | 246 | -12 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1919 USGS Fayettsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Eagle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
What the histories say of this town
1,589 words1 chapter about Fayetteville from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.
| Chapter | From | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Fayette County, Her History and Her People | Fayette County, Her History and Her People (1902) | 1,589 words |
Fires near this place
16 since 1998Regional 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 96 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUNES MILL ROAD |
| 8 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 August 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH BRANCH - 29 |
| 23 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 75 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SANDY LANE |
| 2 August 2001 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH BRANCH - 28 |
| 8 June 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CUMMINS STEIN RD |
| 11 June 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 30 May 1998 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fayetteville | $100,000 | Severe 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 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fayetteville | $20,000 | Trees were blown down by severe winds, blocking FM955 for nearly 1 hour. |
| November 2014 | Flash Flood | Fayetteville | - | 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Fayetteville | - | 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. |
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.
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 Fayetteville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981727 | 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 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.




