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Hallettsville, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Hallettsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77964. It stands on Campbell Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hallettsville quadrangle. 2,731 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 233 feet above sea level.

Hallettsville within Lavaca County

On record in Hallettsville

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Hallettsville grew from 2,550 to 2,731 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
20102,550
20202,731+181 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

80 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Hallettsville between 2004 and 2011, burning about 216 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 burning45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use15
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHALLETTSVILLE KC PARK
20 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceDITCH FIRE
15 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lavaca County

Storms near this place

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hallettsville in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 1994Thunderstorm WindHallettsville$50,000Trees were uprooted by thunderstorm winds in Sweet Home. Power lines and trees were downed in Halletsville.
April 1994HailHallettsville$5,000The Sheriff's Department reported hail slightly larger than one-inch in diameter.
April 1994HailHallettsville$5,000The Sheriff's Department reported golf ball-sized hail at New Kinkler at 1915 CST, with nickle- to quarter-sized hail in Halletsville at 1941 CST.
December 1995HailHallettsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lavaca 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
Good Hope2.3 miles8
Williamsburg3.9 miles8
Worthing4.4 miles9
Appelt Hill5.4 miles10
Mont5.4 miles9
Vsetin6.0 miles8
Wied6.1 miles9
Breslau6.2 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 HallettsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q429358The 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 1337258. 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.