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Briarcliff, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Southwest Travis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78669. It stands on Cat Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pace Bend quadrangle. 2,062 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 758 feet above sea level.

Briarcliff within Travis County

Population over time

3 figures

Briarcliff grew from 895 to 2,062 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
2000895
20101,438+543 (+61%)
20202,062+624 (+43%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

47 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Briarcliff between 2006 and 2020, burning about 8,213 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 were 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/undetermined17
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service16083697
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined6,500 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePEDERNALES BEND FIRE
14 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service20200001946
11 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,500 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePALEFACE/FALL CREEK ESTATE
7 August 2014Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service941-402
31 August 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSPICEWOOD
28 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGHWAY 71
23 August 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service71 EAST

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
Edgewater Beach2.4 miles24
Point Venture3.2 miles24
Lakeway3.9 miles23
North Shore Acres4.4 miles24
Lago Vista4.7 miles24
The Hills5.2 miles23
Buffalo Gap5.2 miles24
Hudson Bend6.1 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 BriarcliffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2490467The 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 1388591. 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.