SCHATTEL, TEXAS. Schattel, west of Farm Road 472 and six miles south of Bigfoot in northeastern Frio County, received a post office in 1924. The community was named for San Antonian S. H. Schattel, who attempted to settle a colony of Bohemian farmers in the area about 1925. In 1929 the community included a school and some five dwellings, and by 1948 it had three businesses and an estimated population of fifty. The Schattel school district was consolidated with those of Bigfoot and Pearsall in 1949. Schattel reported one business and 130 residents in 1970; it continued to report that population level in 1990, when it also had a town hall.

Ruben E. Ochoa