Luling, Texas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Luling census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78648. It stands on Seals Creek. The Survey maps it on the Luling quadrangle. 5,599 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 410 feet above sea level.
On record in Luling
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
State Highway 3-A Bridge at Plum Creeklisted 1996- Zedler Mill Historic Districtlisted 2024
Population over time
2 figuresLuling grew from 5,411 to 5,599 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5,411 | |
| 2020 | 5,599 | +188 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1911 USGS San Marcos quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1919 USGS San Marcos quadrangle1:125000
- 1929 USGS Luling quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Luling quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
87 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Luling between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,231 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 38 |
| Debris and open burning | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH BRANCH - 115 |
| 4 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TWIDWELL FIRE |
| 4 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH BRANCH - 104 |
| 24 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | NORTH SOUTH OIL |
| 15 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | IH-10 |
| 7 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LOCKHART COMMAND |
| 30 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | IH-10 @ US 80 |
| 3 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 1322 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
25 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Luling in 25 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 10 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luling | $500,000 | Extensive tree and powerline damage due to winds. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luling | $100,000 | As the line of thunderstorms associated with the late season cold front moved southward into Caldwell County, they produced severe winds that damaged roofs and windows of buildings in Luling. Portions of one building were blown over onto a trailer by the strong winds. |
| April 1997 | Hail | Luling | $100,000 | Damage was reported to numerous vehicles due to the 1.5 inch hail in Luling. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Luling | $50,000 | Numerous roads and low water crossings flooded across the county. Emergency vehicles were unable to respond to some calls for assistance due to impassable roads. Two swift water rescues were performed. One was located on Caldwell Road near Highway 21 involving one person and a nearly submerged vehicle. Another was located on a county road near the Hays county border. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luling | $50,000 | The severe thunderstorm exited Bastrop County, still moving southwestward, and approached the town of Luling. There it produced a downburst that knocked over trees and blew down power lines. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luling | $50,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds blew down power lines in the Luling area. One building collapsed as a result of the downburst. The storms also produced large hail across the county. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luling | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luling | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luling | $2,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that knocked down trees in Luling. |
| January 2024 | Hail | Luling | - | A thunderstorm produced nickel size hail near Hwy 183 and I-10 southeast of Luling. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Luling | - | Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Harvey produced flash flooding leading to a water rescue on FM 1322 outside of Luling. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luling | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 58 mph that blew a tree down. |
| April 2010 | Flash Flood | Luling | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain which caused flooding north and east of Luling. On FM 1322, Plum Creek Bridge and the intersection with McNeil Road were closed and County Road 129 was completely flooded. |
| July 2007 | Flood | Luling | - | San Marcos below Luling crested at 31.3 ft on 07/21 at 1300cst, where flood stage is 25 ft. |
| March 2007 | Flood | Luling | - | The San Marcos River below Luling crested at 26.19 ft at 1730 CST on March 31, where flood stage is 20 ft. |
| March 2007 | Flood | Luling | - | The San Marcos River below Luling crested at 31.75 ft at 0715 CST on March 12, where flood stage is 20 ft. |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luling | - | Trees were knocked down by severe thunderstorms winds near Luling. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Luling | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Luling | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Luling | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Luling | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Luling | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Hail | Luling | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Hail | Luling | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Luling | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soda Springs | 3.7 miles | 16 | |
| McNeil | 3.9 miles | 16 | |
| Stairtown | 5.0 miles | 15 | |
| Joliet | 6.4 miles | 15 | |
| Prairie Lea | 6.7 miles | 15 | |
| Mineral Springs (historical) | 6.8 miles | 15 | |
| Watts | 6.8 miles | 15 | |
| Brownsboro | 7.4 miles | 15 |
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 Luling | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q973047 | 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 1340735. 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.






