Cotulla, Texas Cotulla, Texas Location of Cotulla, Texas Location of Cotulla, Texas Cotulla Historic District sign downtown (erected 2013) Cotulla (/k tju l / k -tew-l ) is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of La Salle County, Texas, United States. The populace was 3,614 at the 2000 census.
The whole of La Salle County had 6,886 persons in the 2010 census. In June 2014, Cotulla "self-declared" its populace at 7,000, based on utility connections alone. Polish immigrant Joseph Cotulla, who was reared in Silesia, then a part of Prussia, migrated to the United States in the 1850s.
He lived in Atascosa County but appeared in La Salle County in 1868 to establish what became a large ranching operation.
The same year, Cotulla became the governmental center of county by special election. Joseph Cotulla's great-grandson, William Lawrence Cotulla (born c.
1936), a former storekeeper in Cotulla, is a rancher in La Salle, Dimmit, and Webb counties.
In a 2013 interview with the Laredo Morning Times, William Cotulla noted the improve of his birth has changed completely in less than eighty years, having gone through a several phases, beginning with emphasis on farming, then ranching, after that hunting leases, and now oil and natural gas through the Eagle Ford Shale boom. However, with declining gasoline prices, the Eagle Ford boom took a sharp downturn by the fall of 2015. On June 28, 2013, the Texas Historical Commission, the United States Department of the Interior, and the National Register of Historic Places designated downtown Cotulla as a momentous part of Texas history with the unveiling of an historic marker.
In 2006, Cotulla had been designated as a Texas Main Street community. City manager Lazaro "Larry" Dovalina (born 1947), who formerly held the same position in Laredo, compared the impact of the recent expansion of Cotulla to the arrival of the barns in the late 19th century.
Cotulla is believed to have tripled in populace since the 2010 census, with possibly 12,000 inhabitants in 2013.
With Eagle Ford Shale and many jobs in the petroleum and gas fields, Cotulla has seen the building of new hotels, restaurants, truck stops, and refineries.
In 1973, two barns locomotives collided in Cotulla, and three citizens were killed as a result. In 2008, the region about Cotulla burned in a huge grass fire.
With closing expansion from the Eagle Ford Shale deposit, Cotulla homes the biggest sand fracking facility in North America.
Cotulla falls inside the second biggest oil-producing region of the United States.
Cotulla is positioned at 28 26 3 N 99 14 11 W (28.434144, -99.236343).
First United Methodist Church of Cotulla The First Baptist Church of Cotulla was established in the 1880s.
The Prevailing Word Church (non-denominational) in Cotulla The La Salle County Courthouse in downtown Cotulla has undergone extensive renovation.
Cotulla is inside the Cotulla Independent School District.
Cotulla High School, with grades 9-12, is positioned east of town.
The Brush Country Museum, with various small-town ranching memorabilia, is positioned in Cotulla.
Cotulla has Roman Catholic, Southern Baptist, United Methodist, Presbyterian, and non-denominational churches.
The current church sanctuary on Main Street opened in 1948 under the leadership of the Reverend Jesse Cooke. The new First Baptist pastor in Cotulla as of 2013 is Loren G.
Josh Beckett, pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, owns Herradura Ranch, a 7,000-acre (28 km2) deer-hunting enclave positioned approximately 28 miles (45 km) from Cotulla.
Over the generations, the family has acquired a 25,000-acre (100 km2) ranch in Cotulla.
Ray Keck, fifth and current president of Texas A&M International University in Laredo, was reared in Cotulla, where his father, Ray Keck Jr., was a president of the Stockmen's National Bank before to 1967.
O Henry, the short story writer, lived on a sheep ranch near Cotulla in the early 1880s with the prosperous goal of grade his community in dry climate.
Kevin Patrick Yeary, incoming judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, resides in San Antonio but was born in Cotulla in 1966. Trevino, "Economic Development: Oil field riches: Cotulla gets boost from Eagle Ford Shale cash", Laredo Morning Times, June 9, 2014, pp.
"Cotulla, TX - Handbook of Texas Online".
Villarreal, "Cotulla, Texas: Phenomenal Growth", Laredo Morning Times, June 30, 2013, pp.
"Missouri Pacific Disaster in Cotulla, Texas 1973".
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