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Schulenburg, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Schulenburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78956. It stands on Foster Creek. The Survey maps it on the Schulenburg quadrangle. 2,633 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 367 feet above sea level.

Schulenburg within Fayette County

On record in Schulenburg

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Schulenburg fell from 2,852 to 2,633 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
20102,852
20202,633-219 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

40 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Schulenburg between 1999 and 2013, burning about 222 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 burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3

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
23 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
16 September 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2008Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGH HILL
30 August 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this place

23 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Schulenburg in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 9 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 death. 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
April 2009Flash FloodSchulenburg1 killed, $10,000A law enforcement official reported a stalled car in an underpass in Schulenburg with the water rising rapidly. The car was on Highway 77 and the car stalled while going underneath the railroad underpass. An elderly couple was in the car. The woman was rescued, the elderly man drowned.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindSchulenburg$50,000A severe downburst blew over trees and knocked down large tree limbs in the Schulenburg area.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindSchulenburg$30,000no account filed
April 2026Thunderstorm WindSchulenburg$10,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph. The wind knocked down a tree and caused some minor structural damage in southwestern portions of Schulenburg.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindSchulenburg$5,000Severe winds blew over trees and power lines in Schulenburg.
April 2026Flash FloodSchulenburg-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. Local media reported three feet of water over Hwy 77 under the Union Pacific Railroad bridge in Schulenburg.
May 2025HailSchulenburg-A thunderstorm produced nickel to quarter size hail in Schulenburg.
May 2025HailSchulenburg-A thunderstorm produced nickel size hail in Schulenburg.
January 2024Flash FloodSchulenburg-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing several low water crossings in the Schulenburg area.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindSchulenburg-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts measured at 55 kts. by a Davis Weather station in Schulenburg.
May 2019HailSchulenburg-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Schulenburg. Report was from Twitter.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindSchulenburg-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph knocked down trees and powerlines.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindSchulenburg-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph. There were power outages across the city of Schulenburg.
November 2007Flash FloodSchulenburg-During the morning of November 18 thunderstorms moved over northern parts of Fayette County and produced 3 to 3.5 inches of rain after the county had seen over 4 inches overnight (CoCoRAHS observer La Grange 10.2NW reported 7.96 inches in 24 hours ending at 8 AM). Runoff from this additional rain led to flash flooding. Farm to market road 957 southwest of Schulenburg was closed due to water over the road.
June 2004Flash FloodSchulenburg-Late night showers and thunderstorms dropped between 3 and 4 inches of rain in the Schulenburg area. Roads were reported under water until just before midnight.
February 1993HailSchulenburg-Several reports of large hail were made in the county. Golf ball-size hail was reported by a rainfall observer west of Fayette. A weather observer reported quarter-size hail in Schulenburg, nickel-size hail was also reported by a radio station in town a few minutes later. The public reported golf ball-size hail in downtown Flatonia.
February 1993HailSchulenburg-Several reports of large hail were made in the county. Golf ball-size hail was reported by a rainfall observer west of Fayette. A weather observer reported quarter-size hail in Schulenburg, nickel-size hail was also reported by a radio station in town a few minutes later. The public reported golf ball-size hail in downtown Flatonia.
May 2011HailSchulenburg-no account filed
May 2011HailSchulenburg-no account filed
March 2005HailSchulenburg-no account filed
December 2002Funnel CloudSchulenburg-no account filed
June 1998HailSchulenburg-no account filed
June 1996Flash FloodSchulenburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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
High Hill2.8 miles10
Saint John4.4 miles10
Dubina4.9 miles10
Engle5.6 miles11
Freyburg6.2 miles10
Swiss Alp6.9 miles10
Ammannsville7.8 miles10
Praha8.8 miles11

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 SchulenburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q944612The 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 1346794. 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.