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.
Population over time
2 figuresBee 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,925 | |
| 2020 | 9,144 | +5,219 (+133%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 23 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
- 1959 USGS Lake Travis quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1968 USGS Bee Cave quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Austin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Bee Cave quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
27 since 2006Regional 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/undetermined | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | STALLION |
| 12 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FALCON HEAD |
| 12 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COMMONS FORD ROAD |
| 7 August 2011 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BEE CAVE |
| 14 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 6801 MIDWOOD |
| 13 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 85991 |
| 4 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 10214 CIRCLE DRIVE |
| 4 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 9900 CIRCLE DRIVE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Hills | 3.4 miles | 23 | |
| Barton Creek | 4.3 miles | 25 | |
| Lakeway | 4.8 miles | 23 | |
| Buffalo Gap | 5.0 miles | 24 | |
| Lost Creek | 5.4 miles | 25 | |
| River Hills | 5.5 miles | 25 | |
| Point Venture | 5.6 miles | 24 | |
| Steiner Ranch | 5.7 miles | 24 |
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 Cave | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q813981 | 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 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.








