Nockenut
Nockenut is on Farm Road 1681 twenty miles northeast of Floresville
in northeastern Wilson County. It was settled in 1857 during the
wave of German and Polish immigration into the area around Marion
in Guadalupe County and Panna Maria in Karnes County. A post office
opened there in 1858. The settlement was included in Guadalupe
County until the boundary was changed in 1869.
In 1885 the community
of seventy-five persons centered around a cotton gin and store
operated by Joseph P. Watkins. H. S. Hastings, rancher, was postmaster;
A. G. Hastings contracted to bring mail from Seguin; E. E. Hastings
operated a general store. By 1890 the town had a population of
eighty and a church, a school, a general store, a cotton gin,
a grocer, and a wagonmaker.
Nockenut declined when railroads
were built further south but remained a rural post office until
1906. By the mid-1930s only a few houses remained. In 1990 through 2000 the
reported population was ten.