Buda, Texas
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Kyle-Buda census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78610. The Survey maps it on the Buda quadrangle. 15,108 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 702 feet above sea level.
On record in Buda
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 2 records
Downtown Buda Historic Districtlisted 2003
Onion Creek Post Office and Stagecoach Houselisted 2002
Population over time
2 figuresBuda grew from 7,295 to 15,108 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 | 7,295 | |
| 2020 | 15,108 | +7,813 (+107%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1896 USGS Austin quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Austin quadrangle1:125000
- 1910 USGS Austin quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Buda quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Buda quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1985 USGS Austin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
42 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Buda between 2005 and 2020, burning about 312 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 | 24 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 52 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ESTANCIA |
| 6 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 31 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | KYLE CROSSING |
| 18 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | IH 35 |
| 22 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | KOHLERS CROSSING |
| 14 July 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1626 |
| 23 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 22 June 2008 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
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 Buda: 6 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Clay, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Stone, Dimension. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buda Quarry | Limestone, General, Stone, Dimension | Producer | Limestone | |
| Texas Cement Quarry & Plant | Clay, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Limestone, General | Producer | Limestone | |
| Howe Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Howe Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Gravel, Sand | |
| South Austin Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Gravel, Sand |
Storms near this place
23 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buda in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 9 hail, 7 flash flood, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buda | $100,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds damaged roofs and windows of homes and knocked over trees in the Buda area. |
| June 2013 | Lightning | Buda | $50,000 | A thunderstorm produced lightning that started a house fire. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buda | $20,000 | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buda | $5,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that knocked down a few trees in Buda. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buda | $5,000 | Severe winds blew over trees and sheds. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buda | $1,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 50 to 60 mph that knocked down some one inch tree limbs near Buda. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Buda | - | A thunderstorm produced nickel size hail south of Buda. |
| October 2021 | Flash Flood | Buda | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. Several low water crossings were flooded in central Hays County. Rainfall totals near Wimberley were 8.65 inches. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Buda | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter inch hail south of Buda. |
| September 2020 | Flash Flood | Buda | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding along the Andrews Branch in Buda. ATXFloods reported that Dacy Ln. was flooded north of Windy Hill Rd. |
| September 2020 | Flash Flood | Buda | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. ATXFloods reported that Onion Creek ran out of its banks closing Garrison Rd. in Buda. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Buda | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail at Cabela's in Buda. |
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Buda | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding sending water over the road in Leisurewoods near Buda. |
| May 2016 | Flash Flood | Buda | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding resulting in a water rescue in Buda. |
| May 2016 | Flash Flood | Buda | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding resulting in high water rescues in Buda with many low water crossings closed. |
| May 2005 | Flash Flood | Buda | - | Thunderstorms produced a general 1 to 2 inch rain between Buda, in Hays County, and Creedmoor, in southeast Travis County. Highest rainfall amounts were near 4 inches. Flash flooding closed FM2001 near Buda and FM 1327 between Creedmoor and IH-35. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buda | - | Large trees were knocked over. |
| May 1993 | Hail | Buda | - | A TV-Weather Watcher reported dime-size hail in Buda. The San Marcos Police Department reported golf ball-size hail in the Deerwood subdivision. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Buda | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Buda | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Buda | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Hail | Buda | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Buda | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flatrock Ford | 2.9 miles | 18 | |
| Hays | 3.1 miles | 18 | |
| Mountain City | 4.1 miles | 18 | |
| Goforth | 5.0 miles | 18 | |
| Kyle | 6.9 miles | 16 | |
| Hays City | 8.3 miles | 18 | |
| Bear Creek | 9.1 miles | 19 | |
| Driftwood | 10.4 miles | 15 |
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 Buda | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q379043 | 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 1331525. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.






