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Bee Cave, Texas

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Southwest Travis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78738. It lies near Owl Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Bee Cave quadrangle. 9,144 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 919 feet above sea level.

Bee Cave within Travis County

Population over time

2 figures

Bee Cave grew from 3,925 to 9,144 between 2010 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
20103,925
20209,144+5,219 (+133%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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

27 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Bee Cave between 2006 and 2020, burning about 520 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTALLION
12 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFALCON HEAD
12 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOMMONS FORD ROAD
7 August 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBEE CAVE
14 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6801 MIDWOOD
13 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service85991
4 July 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service10214 CIRCLE DRIVE
4 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9900 CIRCLE DRIVE

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
The Hills3.4 miles23
Barton Creek4.3 miles25
Lakeway4.8 miles23
Buffalo Gap5.0 miles24
Lost Creek5.4 miles25
River Hills5.5 miles25
Point Venture5.6 miles24
Steiner Ranch5.7 miles24

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 Bee CaveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q813981The 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 1330313. 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.