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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.

Stonewall within Gillespie County

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

Population over time

3 figures

Stonewall 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.

YearPeople Change
2000469
2010505+36 (+8%)
2020451-54 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

150 since 1992

Regional 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 burning108
Equipment and vehicle use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Natural2

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
5 September 2011Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1519 UPPER ALBERT RD
30 September 1992Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreLyndon B. Johnson National Historic ParkWIRE
29 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service290 @ BLUMENTAL FARMS
28 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCEMETARY RD.
28 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGELLERMANN LN OFF BELL OTTMERS
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRAPE CREEK
20 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceUS 290 E

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gillespie County

Storms near this place

12 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2001Tornado (F3)Stonewall5 hurt, $1,000,000The 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 2000Thunderstorm WindStonewall$10,000Severe winds blew over several trees in Stonewall.
May 2013HailStonewall$2,000A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail that broke windshields.
May 2025HailStonewall-A thunderstorm produced tennis ball size hail in Stonewall.
May 2025HailStonewall-A thunderstorm produced baseball size hail west of Lyndon Baines Johnson State Historical Park.
April 2024HailStonewall-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail in Stonewall.
April 2024HailStonewall-A thunderstorm produced hen egg size hail in Stonewall.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindStonewall-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts measured at 55 kts by the Bird RAWS site at the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindStonewall-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts measured at 52 kts. by the Bird RAWS station near Stonewall.
March 2012HailStonewall-A broadcast media partner relayed a report of golf ball size hail in Stonewall.
April 2014HailStonewall-no account filed
October 1997HailStonewall-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gillespie 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
Blumenthal4.2 miles13
Albert4.4 miles13
Luckenbach6.3 miles11
Rocky Hill6.9 miles11
Cain City8.3 miles11
Grapetown10.2 miles11
Fredericksburg11.3 miles12
Willow City11.5 miles12

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 StonewallAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q975048The 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.