Buchanan Lake Village, Texas
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Llano North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78672. It stands on Alexander Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lake Buchanan quadrangle. 720 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,060 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBuchanan Lake Village grew from 692 to 720 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 | 692 | |
| 2020 | 720 | +28 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 18 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 Burnet quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Burnet quadrangle1:125000
- 1903 USGS Burnet quadrangle1:125000
- 1909 USGS Burnet quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1925 USGS Burnet 2-c quadrangle1:48000
- 1932 USGS Tow quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Lake Buchanan quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Llano quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Llano quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
23 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Buchanan Lake Village between 2003 and 2020, burning about 1,260 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 21 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ELB VFD |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LOMA VISTA (11-0108) |
| 29 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 21 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | ELBVFD |
| 19 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | PENINSULA (1700125) |
| 6 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 376 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CHIANS |
| 5 August 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 200 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HILL COUNTRY - 1 |
| 2 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 217 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Buchanan Lake Village: 5 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver, Gold, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Silver, Molybdenum, Gold, Iron, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bailey Prospect | Copper, Silver, Gold, Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | ||
| Frank Thomas Farm | Zinc, Silver, Molybdenum, Gold, Iron, Lead | Occurrence | ||
| Silver Creek Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | 1890 | |
| Beaver Creek Location | Lead | Occurrence | ||
| Beaver Creek Prospect | Lead | Occurrence | 1890 | |
| Silver Creek Mine | Lead | Occurrence |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tow | 2.6 miles | 18 | |
| Bluffton | 3.0 miles | 18 | |
| Golden Beach | 3.6 miles | 18 | |
| Lone Grove | 7.2 miles | 16 | |
| Stolz | 7.6 miles | 16 | |
| Buchanan Dam | 7.7 miles | 20 | |
| Baby Head (historical) | 11.1 miles | 17 | |
| Lakeside Heights | 11.4 miles | 20 |
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 Buchanan Lake Village | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5665767 | 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 2034951. 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.











