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Tuleta, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Pettus-Pawnee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78162. It stands on Toro Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tuleta quadrangle. 231 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 325 feet above sea level.

Tuleta within Bee County

Population over time

2 figures

Tuleta fell from 288 to 231 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
2010288
2020231-57 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

73 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Tuleta between 2004 and 2019, burning about 1,359 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking6
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
9 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGARZA
4 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRUNWALD
6 August 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBILL DIRKS
6 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY623
18 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORMANNA FIRE
18 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1465
15 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHALL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bee County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Tuleta: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Moore Materials Co IncStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bee County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tuleta in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2017HailTuleta$10,000Golf ball sized hail occurred in Tuleta.
June 2019HailTuleta$5,000Spotter reported quarter sized hail fell for around 20 minutes.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindTuleta-Tree down reported in Tuleta.
December 2002HailTuleta-no account filed
March 1998HailTuleta-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bee 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
Normanna2.9 miles9
Pettus3.3 miles9
Tulsita5.1 miles9
Mineral5.9 miles9
Caesar7.9 miles10
Orangedale9.2 miles9
Hidden Acres Colonia10.0 miles9
Old Airport Road Colonia10.2 miles9

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 TuletaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982886The 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 1370198. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.