Fowlerton, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cotulla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78021. It stands on Sevenmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fowlerton quadrangle. 73 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 322 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresFowlerton grew from 62 to 73 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 62 | |
| 2010 | 55 | -7 (-11%) |
| 2020 | 73 | +18 (+33%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 9 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.
- 1942 USGS Fowlerton quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fowlerton quadrangle1:62500
- 1961 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Fowlerton quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS George West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
12 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Fowlerton between 2008 and 2019, burning about 329 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY97&72 |
| 31 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LA FIRE |
| 21 June 2011 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY97 YEAGER CREEK |
| 1 May 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | MCMULLEN COUNTY HWY72 |
| 4 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MCMULLEN COUNTY #1 |
| 17 March 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 97 EAST |
| 25 February 2008 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 February 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 37 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WATSON RANCH #2 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fowlerton in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2013 | Flash Flood | Fowlerton | $100,000 | Several high water rescues occurred in La Salle County with water as high as|4 feet deep in some areas. |
| May 2015 | Flood | Fowlerton | - | Flood wave moving down the Frio River flooded several roads around Fowlerton. |
| April 2013 | Hail | Fowlerton | - | Spotter reported quarter sized hail on Farm to Market Road 1582 north of Fowlerton. |
| October 2013 | Flash Flood | Fowlerton | - | Heavy rainfall produced flooding in Cotulla and across La Salle County. Rising creeks and water over the roads caused road closure across many Farm to Market roads including FM 468 and FM 469. |
| July 2013 | Heavy Rain | Fowlerton | - | Heavy rainfall occurred near Fowlerton with 5.49 inches of rain measured. |
| December 2002 | Hail | Fowlerton | - | no account filed |
| March 2001 | Hail | Fowlerton | - | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Hail | Fowlerton | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dull | 6.5 miles | 9 | |
| Los Angeles | 10.0 miles | 10 | |
| Gardendale | 21.8 miles | 9 | |
| Millett | 22.1 miles | 9 | |
| Zamora Acres Colonia | 22.2 miles | 10 | |
| Cotulla | 22.6 miles | 10 | |
| Woodward | 27.4 miles | 8 | |
| Artesia Wells | 28.2 miles | 13 |
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 Fowlerton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981596 | 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 1336131. 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.







