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Stockdale, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Stockdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78160. The Survey maps it on the Stockdale quadrangle. 1,413 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 443 feet above sea level.

Stockdale within Wilson County

Population over time

3 figures

Stockdale grew from 1,398 to 1,413 between 2000 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
20001,398
20101,442+44 (+3%)
20201,413-29 (-2%)

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

131 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Stockdale between 2004 and 2018, burning about 2,216 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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
Debris and open burning57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Equipment and vehicle use21
Arson/incendiarism11
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
25 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORTH OF 3135 ON 123 N
14 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBBQ ROAD FIRES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilson County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stockdale in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2016: 3 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2001HailStockdale$150,000Again, the very large hail damaged homes and vehicles and destroyed corn, hay and other crops in the area.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindStockdale$100,000Severe thunderstorm winds blew down trees and knocked over power lines near Stockdale.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindStockdale$30,000Severe thunderstorm winds moved a wooden barn off its foundation near US123 and FM1681 just north of Stockdale.
August 2016Flash FloodStockdale-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding requiring a high water rescue in Stockdale.
August 2016Flash FloodStockdale-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing Hwy 87 in Stockdale.
September 2006Flash FloodStockdale-Late afternoon thunderstorms developed from northern Wilson County through northwestern Gonzales County into southwestern Fayette County, producing general 2 to 3 inches of rain over the area. Highest totals in Wilson County were 4 inches near LaVernia. Flash flooding closed FM775 and FM2772 through the late evening.
April 2014HailStockdale-no account filed
January 1999Tornado (F0)Stockdale-no account filed
June 1998HailStockdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wilson 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
Alum4.0 miles12
Denhawken4.8 miles10
Caddo4.9 miles12
Gray Crossing5.0 miles10
Unity5.7 miles9
Sutherland Springs5.7 miles9
Pandora6.5 miles13
Plummer Crossing7.6 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 StockdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q975204The 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 1369222. 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.