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==History== Historic dwellers of the area were Lipan Apache tribes. After the Spanish discovery of the Americas, Western settlement came in the form of Christian missions. Thus, in the mid-18th century, Mision de las Cabras, "the goat ranch", was established near Floresville as a mission ranching operation for Mission Espada. Indian and Spanish vaqueros lived and worshiped here, while caring for the herds of animals. This was the precursor of the Texas ranching industry.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}} The land and name for this town would be given to honor the Flores de Abrego family, who were descendants of the former Canary Islanders. Don Francisco Flores de Abrego was an early settler of this area, his ranch was six miles (10 km) northwest of the site of present Floresville.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Munoz Ziga |first1=Adriana |title=Archival Research of the History of the Francisco Flores Ranch |journal=Journal of Texas Archeology and History |date=2014 |issue=1 |pages=127–150 |doi=10.21112/ita.2014.1.79 |url=https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita/vol2014/iss1/79/|doi-access=free }}</ref> Four of his sons, Salvador, [[Manuel N. Flores|Manuel N.]], Nepomuceno, and Jose Maria served Texas in the 1835–1836 Revolution. Don [[Erasmo Seguin]] (born 1782, in San Antonio) also settled in this area in late 1824, purchasing a ranch, and with his wife raised a family here. His ranch, "Casa Blanca",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://198.154.225.51/~seguin/historical-research/casa-blanca/|title=Casa Blanca - Seguin Family Historical Society|access-date=9 September 2016}}</ref> began as a {{convert|9000|acre|km2|adj=on}} tract near present Floresville. The Erasmo Seguin family had previously lived in [[San Antonio de Bexar]], and also owned a {{convert|22,000|acre|km2|adj=on}} ranch further south (in present [[Karnes County, Texas|Karnes County]]), but now chose to build and live in Floresville. [[Juan Seguín]] (born 1806, in San Antonio), one of Erasmo Seguin's sons, was also a prominent Texas military and political figure. He returned with his family to again reside on his father's Floresville ranch from 1848 to 1852. Juan then built a home<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/tx0234/|title=Juan N. Seguin Ranch House, Northwest of Floresville, Floresville, Wilson County, TX|first=historic American buildings|last=survey|website=[[Library of Congress]]|access-date=9 September 2016}}</ref> in 1852 on a property adjacent to his father's, 3 miles northwest of Floresville's center, living there until about 1883. He had come back from a necessary self-imposed exile in Mexico, from 1842 to 1848. As a [[Texian Army]] colonel, Juan Seguin, a true [[Texas Revolution]] (1835–1836) hero,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://198.154.225.51/~seguin/events-dedications/honoring-a-texas-hero/|title=Honoring a Texas Hero - Seguin Family Historical Society|access-date=9 September 2016}}</ref> had later been blamed by some Anglo Texans for the loss of San Antonio (then part of the [[Republic of Texas]]), from attacks by Gra. [[Ráfael Vásquez (general)|Rafael Vásquez]] under Gra. [[Antonio López de Santa Anna|Santa Anna]]'s command in 1842, and his life was threatened. Santa Anna was trying to restore Texas to Mexican control. Though Col. Seguin had beat Gra. Vásquez's forces back across the Rio Grande, he was disparaged as having Mexican sympathies and loyalties. In exile (from 1842), once in Mexico, he then agreed to serve under Santa Anna in the [[Mexican–American War]] of 1846–1848. Gra. Santa Anna had attempted to regain Texas from the United States in 1846, after Texas was willingly annexed by the US in 1845. After that war, Juan Seguin then left Mexico behind in 1848 and returned to the now US state of Texas, to his father's Floresville ranch. ===2015 tornado=== {{Main|October 29–31, 2015 tornado outbreak}} In the early hours of October 30, an EF2 tornado touched down south of downtown. The tornado strengthened at a slow rate until it got to the city limits. The tornado threw a trailer on top of the [[Holiday Inn]] building. [[Floresville High School]] was severely damaged to the point where it almost collapsed. A store was pummeled by debris before the storm left the city limits. The tornado tracked into the oil fields toward [[Sutherland Springs, Texas|Sutherland Springs]]. It lifted up before reaching Sutherland Springs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kens5.com/picture-gallery/weather/2015/10/30/damage-photos-possible-tornado-in-floresville/74863658/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064150/http://www.kens5.com/picture-gallery/weather/2015/10/30/damage-photos-possible-tornado-in-floresville/74863658/|title=DAMAGE PHOTOS: Possible tornado in Floresville|archive-date=2016-03-04|access-date=2023-08-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Event Details |url=https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/eventdetails.jsp?id=605487 |publisher=National Climatic Data Center}}</ref>
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