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.
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
Bedstead Truss Bridgelisted 2013
East Navidad River Bridgelisted 2014
Sengelmann Hall and City Meat Market Buildinglisted 2009- Schulenburg Cotton Compresslisted 1979
Population over time
2 figuresSchulenburg 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,852 | |
| 2020 | 2,633 | -219 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1919 USGS Schulenburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Schulenburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Eagle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
40 since 1999Regional 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 burning | 22 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 16 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 15 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 13 September 2008 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 11 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 1 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HIGH HILL |
| 30 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 30 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
23 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2009 | Flash Flood | Schulenburg | 1 killed, $10,000 | A 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 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Schulenburg | $50,000 | A severe downburst blew over trees and knocked down large tree limbs in the Schulenburg area. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Schulenburg | $30,000 | no account filed |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Schulenburg | $10,000 | A 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 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Schulenburg | $5,000 | Severe winds blew over trees and power lines in Schulenburg. |
| April 2026 | Flash Flood | Schulenburg | - | 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 2025 | Hail | Schulenburg | - | A thunderstorm produced nickel to quarter size hail in Schulenburg. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Schulenburg | - | A thunderstorm produced nickel size hail in Schulenburg. |
| January 2024 | Flash Flood | Schulenburg | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing several low water crossings in the Schulenburg area. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Schulenburg | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts measured at 55 kts. by a Davis Weather station in Schulenburg. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Schulenburg | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Schulenburg. Report was from Twitter. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Schulenburg | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph knocked down trees and powerlines. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Schulenburg | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph. There were power outages across the city of Schulenburg. |
| November 2007 | Flash Flood | Schulenburg | - | 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 2004 | Flash Flood | Schulenburg | - | 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 1993 | Hail | Schulenburg | - | 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 1993 | Hail | Schulenburg | - | 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 2011 | Hail | Schulenburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Schulenburg | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Schulenburg | - | no account filed |
| December 2002 | Funnel Cloud | Schulenburg | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Schulenburg | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Flash Flood | Schulenburg | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Hill | 2.8 miles | 10 | |
| Saint John | 4.4 miles | 10 | |
| Dubina | 4.9 miles | 10 | |
| Engle | 5.6 miles | 11 | |
| Freyburg | 6.2 miles | 10 | |
| Swiss Alp | 6.9 miles | 10 | |
| Ammannsville | 7.8 miles | 10 | |
| Praha | 8.8 miles | 11 |
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 Schulenburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q944612 | 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 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.




