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Brushy Creek, Texas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Round Rock-Georgetown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78681. It stands on South Brushy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Round Rock quadrangle. 22,519 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 827 feet above sea level.

Brushy Creek within Williamson County

Population over time

2 figures

Brushy Creek grew from 21,764 to 22,519 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
201021,764
202022,519+755 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

66 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Brushy Creek between 2005 and 2016, burning about 232 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined46
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1
Smoking1

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
4 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSH 130 AT FM 971
31 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1498 N IH 35
3 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCNEIL COMMAND
28 August 2006Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCNEIL
13 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceOUTLET MALL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Brushy Creek: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Calcium, Limestone, General, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Allen Pit & PlantLimestone, GeneralProducer
Dedear QuarryLimestone, General, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducerLimestone
Texas Ind Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dedear QuarryCalciumProducer
Mc Neil Plant & QuarryCalciumProducer

Every working recorded in Williamson 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
Turkey Hollow2.2 miles17
Old Round Rock (historical)3.1 miles19
Round Rock3.2 miles19
Cedar Park4.3 miles17
White Stone4.8 miles17
Pond Springs5.0 miles23
Jollyville5.2 miles23
Walkerton5.2 miles17

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 Brushy CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982131The 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 1867542. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.