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.
Population over time
3 figuresBarton 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,589 | |
| 2010 | 3,077 | +1,488 (+94%) |
| 2020 | 3,356 | +279 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 25 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1896 USGS Austin quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Austin quadrangle1:125000
- 1910 USGS Austin quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1932 USGS Mt. Bonnell quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Austin West quadrangle1:24000
- 1959 USGS Lake Travis quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1966 USGS Austin West quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1985 USGS Austin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1988 USGS Austin West quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
87 since 2005Regional 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/undetermined | 50 |
| Smoking | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | VILLAGE WEST |
| 3 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | STALLION |
| 2 September 2006 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 15 September 2008 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 12 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COMMONS FORD ROAD |
| 9 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 August 2011 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BEE CAVE |
| 5 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 8700 THUNDERBIRD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lost Creek | 1.5 miles | 25 | |
| Oak Hill | 3.5 miles | 18 | |
| West Lake Hills | 3.7 miles | 25 | |
| River Hills | 3.9 miles | 25 | |
| Rollingwood | 4.2 miles | 25 | |
| Bee Cave | 4.3 miles | 23 | |
| Greenshores | 4.7 miles | 25 | |
| Williamson | 4.8 miles | 18 |
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 Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982633 | The 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.









