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.
Population over time
3 figuresBriarcliff 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 895 | |
| 2010 | 1,438 | +543 (+61%) |
| 2020 | 2,062 | +624 (+43%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1887 USGS Blanco quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Blanco quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1930 USGS Blanco-1 quadrangle1:48000
- 1954 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Pace Bend quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Pedernales River quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Pace Bend quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
47 since 2006Regional 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/undetermined | 17 |
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 16083697 |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6,500 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PEDERNALES BEND FIRE |
| 14 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 20200001946 |
| 11 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,500 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PALEFACE/FALL CREEK ESTATE |
| 7 August 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 941-402 |
| 31 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SPICEWOOD |
| 28 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HIGHWAY 71 |
| 23 August 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 71 EAST |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edgewater Beach | 2.4 miles | 24 | |
| Point Venture | 3.2 miles | 24 | |
| Lakeway | 3.9 miles | 23 | |
| North Shore Acres | 4.4 miles | 24 | |
| Lago Vista | 4.7 miles | 24 | |
| The Hills | 5.2 miles | 23 | |
| Buffalo Gap | 5.2 miles | 24 | |
| Hudson Bend | 6.1 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 Briarcliff | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2490467 | 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 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.








