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Barton Creek, Texas

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Austin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78735. It lies near Hebbingston Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Austin West quadrangle. 3,356 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 820 feet above sea level.

Barton Creek within Travis County

Population over time

3 figures

Barton Creek grew from 1,589 to 3,356 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20001,589
20103,077+1,488 (+94%)
20203,356+279 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

87 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Barton Creek between 2005 and 2020, burning about 190 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined50
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVILLAGE WEST
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTALLION
2 September 2006Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2008Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOMMONS FORD ROAD
9 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBEE CAVE
5 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8700 THUNDERBIRD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Travis County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lost Creek1.5 miles25
Oak Hill3.5 miles18
West Lake Hills3.7 miles25
River Hills3.9 miles25
Rollingwood4.2 miles25
Bee Cave4.3 miles23
Greenshores4.7 miles25
Williamson4.8 miles18

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Barton CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982633The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1852686. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.