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TORDILLA MOUND, TEXAS. Tordilla Mound was a post office in Atascosa County from August 4, 1858, to April 15, 1859. It was probably a stage stop on the San Patricio Trailqv near Tordilla Hill and the natural water hole at Rock Spring, where ruins of two old stone buildings were found in 1963.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Robert H. Thonhoff, History of Karnes County (M.A. thesis, Southwest Texas State College, 1963).

Robert H. Thonhoff

 

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