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Flatonia, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Flatonia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78941. It lies near Obar Hill. The Survey maps it on the Flatonia quadrangle. 1,308 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 456 feet above sea level.

Flatonia within Fayette County

On record in Flatonia

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Flatonia fell from 1,383 to 1,308 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
20101,383
20201,308-75 (-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

1,043 words

1 chapter about Flatonia 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)1,043 words

Fires near this place

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Flatonia between 1993 and 2013, burning about 304 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined28 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTRAL TX - 40

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Flatonia: 5 producers, 2 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Bentonite, Clay, Fullers Earth. 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
Unnamed PitFullers EarthProducerSedimentary
Balcones PitClayProducer
Flatonia PitClayProducer
Ash PitBentoniteProducerSedimentary
Ash PitBentonitePast Producer
Mica PitBentoniteProducer1981
Mica Pit and PlantBentonitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this place

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flatonia in 16 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 10 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
June 1998Thunderstorm WindFlatonia$20,000no account filed
January 1998HailFlatonia$10,000no account filed
February 1994HailFlatonia$5,000A severe thunderstorm produce hail of up to one inch in diameter in and around the town of Flatonia. Minor window damage and glass breakage was reported.
January 1998Thunderstorm WindFlatonia$5,000no account filed
January 1998HailFlatonia$3,000no account filed
May 2025HailFlatonia-A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail in Flatonia.
May 2015Flash FloodFlatonia-Roads at Highway 95 and 609 were closed due to high water. Also, a number of low water crossings within the city of Flatonia had water flowing over them.
November 2007Flash FloodFlatonia-Thunderstorms moved slowly across southern Fayette County during the evening of November 17 producing very heavy rainfall. Radar estimates showed in excess of 4 inches of rain from 6 PM until midnight and CoCoRAHS observer La Grange 10.2NW reported 7.96 inches in 24 hours ending at 8 AM on November 18. The heavy rain led to flash flooding which closed Highway 90 from Flatonia to Schulenburg due to water over the road.
June 2004Flash FloodFlatonia-Between 2 and 3 inches of rain fell in the mid afternoon between Flatonia and Schulenburg. Maximum totals were reported to be near 4 inches between the two towns. Flash flooding closed several roads, including FM209 and SH95.
January 1994HailFlatonia-Hail between 0.50 and 1.00-inch-diameter was reported in the southern portion of Fayette County , near Flatonia. A radio station in LaGrange relayed a report of pea-size to marble-size hail in Schulenberg. TEXAS, Southern Cont'd
February 1993HailFlatonia-Several reports of large hail were made in the county. Golf ball-size hail was reported by a rainfall observer west of Fayette. A weather observer reported quarter-size hail in Schulenburg, nickel-size hail was also reported by a radio station in town a few minutes later. The public reported golf ball-size hail in downtown Flatonia.
February 1993HailFlatonia-Several reports of large hail were made in the county. Golf ball-size hail was reported by a rainfall observer west of Fayette. A weather observer reported quarter-size hail in Schulenburg, nickel-size hail was also reported by a radio station in town a few minutes later. The public reported golf ball-size hail in downtown Flatonia.
April 2004HailFlatonia-no account filed
June 1998HailFlatonia-no account filed
June 1998Funnel CloudFlatonia-no account filed
June 1998HailFlatonia-no account filed

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
Old Flatonia1.9 miles11
Praha2.6 miles11
Engle5.3 miles11
Armstrong5.9 miles11
Floy6.6 miles11
Colony6.7 miles11
Elm Grove8.0 miles11
Freyburg8.9 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 FlatoniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q974825The 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 1335937. 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.