Stonewall, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Stonewall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78671. It stands on Salt Branch. The Survey maps it on the Stonewall quadrangle. 451 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,467 feet above sea level.
On record in Stonewall
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 1 record
Williams Creek Schoollisted 2005
Population over time
3 figuresStonewall fell from 469 to 451 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 469 | |
| 2010 | 505 | +36 (+8%) |
| 2020 | 451 | -54 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1894 USGS Fredericksburg quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Stonewall quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Pedernales River quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
150 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Stonewall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 730 acres in total. 2 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 | 108 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1519 UPPER ALBERT RD |
| 30 September 1992 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Lyndon B. Johnson National Historic Park | WIRE |
| 29 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 290 @ BLUMENTAL FARMS |
| 28 September 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CEMETARY RD. |
| 28 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GELLERMANN LN OFF BELL OTTMERS |
| 25 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRAPE CREEK |
| 20 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | US 290 E |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stonewall in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 8 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 5 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2001 | Tornado (F3) | Stonewall | 5 hurt, $1,000,000 | The strongest of the Friday night tornadoes struck the town of Stonewall. This tornado, rated F3 on the Fujita Scale, was preceded by brief gusty winds of 30 to 40 miles per hour, very heavy rainfall and spotty .5-inch hail. The tornado formed around 830 pm CST near the intersection of Hahn Road and SH290. It moved north-northeastward for .75 miles, crossing SH290 and the Pedernales River. Just north of the river, it made a slight turn toward the east, now moving another mile toward the northeast. It crossed North River Road and continued over open country until it crossed Ranch Road 1623. After passing RR1623 for approximately .25 miles, it dissipated. The worst damage, F3 level, was to trees and homes between RR1623 and SH290, across the northwest and north central part of Stonewall. Ninety homes sustained damage with 6 destroyed. In addition, 7 mobile homes were destroyed and 20 damaged. Damage was also reported to 22 buildings. A two-story home had the entire second story destroyed, and a concrete building lost most of its walls and all of its roof. Other damage along the path typically included destroyed and damaged roofs and walls of homes and businesses as well as widespread damage to trees. The tornado path was approximately .25 miles in width and 2.5 miles in length. Although the tornado was not seen due to the late hour and darkness, residents did report that after heavy rain and hail, the wind became calm, and it was followed by a "roaring sound" so often reported in tornadoes. Five persons were injured with one man hospitalized as a result of the tornado. |
| February 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stonewall | $10,000 | Severe winds blew over several trees in Stonewall. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Stonewall | $2,000 | A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail that broke windshields. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Stonewall | - | A thunderstorm produced tennis ball size hail in Stonewall. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Stonewall | - | A thunderstorm produced baseball size hail west of Lyndon Baines Johnson State Historical Park. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Stonewall | - | A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail in Stonewall. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Stonewall | - | A thunderstorm produced hen egg size hail in Stonewall. |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stonewall | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts measured at 55 kts by the Bird RAWS site at the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stonewall | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts measured at 52 kts. by the Bird RAWS station near Stonewall. |
| March 2012 | Hail | Stonewall | - | A broadcast media partner relayed a report of golf ball size hail in Stonewall. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Stonewall | - | no account filed |
| October 1997 | Hail | Stonewall | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blumenthal | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| Albert | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Luckenbach | 6.3 miles | 11 | |
| Rocky Hill | 6.9 miles | 11 | |
| Cain City | 8.3 miles | 11 | |
| Grapetown | 10.2 miles | 11 | |
| Fredericksburg | 11.3 miles | 12 | |
| Willow City | 11.5 miles | 12 |
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 Stonewall | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q975048 | 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 1379119. 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.





