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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.

Luling within Caldwell County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Luling 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.

YearPeople Change
20105,411
20205,599+188 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

87 since 1993

Regional 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 use38
Debris and open burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 115
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTWIDWELL FIRE
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 104
24 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORTH SOUTH OIL
15 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH-10
7 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLOCKHART COMMAND
30 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH-10 @ US 80
3 August 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1322

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caldwell County

Storms near this place

25 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1994Thunderstorm WindLuling$500,000Extensive tree and powerline damage due to winds.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindLuling$100,000As 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 1997HailLuling$100,000Damage was reported to numerous vehicles due to the 1.5 inch hail in Luling.
May 2015Flash FloodLuling$50,000Numerous 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 2003Thunderstorm WindLuling$50,000The 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 1998Thunderstorm WindLuling$50,000Severe 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 1999Thunderstorm WindLuling$10,000no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindLuling$5,000no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindLuling$2,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that knocked down trees in Luling.
January 2024HailLuling-A thunderstorm produced nickel size hail near Hwy 183 and I-10 southeast of Luling.
August 2017Flash FloodLuling-Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Harvey produced flash flooding leading to a water rescue on FM 1322 outside of Luling.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindLuling-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 58 mph that blew a tree down.
April 2010Flash FloodLuling-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 2007FloodLuling-San Marcos below Luling crested at 31.3 ft on 07/21 at 1300cst, where flood stage is 25 ft.
March 2007FloodLuling-The San Marcos River below Luling crested at 26.19 ft at 1730 CST on March 31, where flood stage is 20 ft.
March 2007FloodLuling-The San Marcos River below Luling crested at 31.75 ft at 0715 CST on March 12, where flood stage is 20 ft.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindLuling-Trees were knocked down by severe thunderstorms winds near Luling.
May 2002HailLuling-no account filed
March 2000HailLuling-no account filed
March 2000HailLuling-no account filed
July 1998HailLuling-no account filed
March 1998HailLuling-no account filed
April 1997HailLuling-no account filed
April 1997HailLuling-no account filed
May 1995HailLuling-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Caldwell 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
Soda Springs3.7 miles16
McNeil3.9 miles16
Stairtown5.0 miles15
Joliet6.4 miles15
Prairie Lea6.7 miles15
Mineral Springs (historical)6.8 miles15
Watts6.8 miles15
Brownsboro7.4 miles15

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 LulingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q973047The 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.