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History · Flowella

Flowella’s post office opened in 1910

Below: maps from 1921 on and the census since 2000.

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How Flowella began

When was Flowella founded?

1910

The Flowella post office opened in 1910, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 134 in 20002020 census: 117116 years
Founding year: the first Flowella post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Flowella’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Flowella are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19213 editions of the USGS map, 1921 to 1985. Watch Flowella change.
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On the map

Flowella on the map, 1921 to 1985

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Flowella. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Flowella on the 1921 USGS mapFlowella on the 1963 USGS mapFlowella on the 1985 USGS map1921Falfurrias sheet · 1:125,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Flowella.

The story

How Flowella came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Flowella.

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Flowella was founded in 1909 by promoters Burton and Danforth. The community was planned with a flowing well as its centerpiece. A post office was established in Flowella in 1910. It remained in operation for the next 13 years. Sixty people were living in the community in 1914. The town also had a hotel and general store.

The growth of nearby Falfurrias kept the population of Flowella small. It exists today as a rural, dispersed community.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Flowella, 1910 to 1923

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 20th century
  2. 1910Post officeThe Flowella post office opens
  3. 1921On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 1923Post officeThe Flowella post office closes
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People over time

Flowella, census by census

010020002020Peak: 134

Between 117 and 134 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Flowella’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Flowella

Nobody well known was born in Flowella itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Steve DentonAmerican tennis player · b. 1956
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Javier PeñaDEA agent · b. 1958
Lauro CavazosAmerican educator; George H. W. Bush administra… · b. 1927
Matthew DearAmerican musician · b. 1979
Richard E. CavazosU.S. Army general · b. 1929
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Kimberly ScottAmerican actress · b. 1961
Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Flowella had its own post office from 1910 to 1923.

Flowella
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Flowella’s history

What year was Flowella founded?

The Flowella post office opened in 1910, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.