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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.

Fowlerton within La Salle County

Population over time

3 figures

Fowlerton 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.

YearPeople Change
200062
201055-7 (-11%)
202073+18 (+33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 9 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

12 since 2008

Regional 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 2011Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY97&72
31 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLA FIRE
21 June 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY97 YEAGER CREEK
1 May 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCMULLEN COUNTY HWY72
4 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCMULLEN COUNTY #1
17 March 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 97 EAST
25 February 2008Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 February 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined37 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWATSON RANCH #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in La Salle County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2013Flash FloodFowlerton$100,000Several high water rescues occurred in La Salle County with water as high as|4 feet deep in some areas.
May 2015FloodFowlerton-Flood wave moving down the Frio River flooded several roads around Fowlerton.
April 2013HailFowlerton-Spotter reported quarter sized hail on Farm to Market Road 1582 north of Fowlerton.
October 2013Flash FloodFowlerton-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 2013Heavy RainFowlerton-Heavy rainfall occurred near Fowlerton with 5.49 inches of rain measured.
December 2002HailFowlerton-no account filed
March 2001HailFowlerton-no account filed
February 1998HailFowlerton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in La Salle 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
Dull6.5 miles9
Los Angeles10.0 miles10
Gardendale21.8 miles9
Millett22.1 miles9
Zamora Acres Colonia22.2 miles10
Cotulla22.6 miles10
Woodward27.4 miles8
Artesia Wells28.2 miles13

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 FowlertonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981596The 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.