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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.

Buda within Hays County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Buda 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.

YearPeople Change
20107,295
202015,108+7,813 (+107%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

42 since 2005

Regional 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/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use8
Debris and open burning5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
7 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use52 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceESTANCIA
6 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
31 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceKYLE CROSSING
18 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH 35
22 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceKOHLERS CROSSING
14 July 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1626
23 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
22 June 2008Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hays County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Buda QuarryLimestone, General, Stone, DimensionProducerLimestone
Texas Cement Quarry & PlantClay, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Howe Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Howe PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
South Austin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Hays County

Storms near this place

23 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2002Thunderstorm WindBuda$100,000Severe thunderstorm winds damaged roofs and windows of homes and knocked over trees in the Buda area.
June 2013LightningBuda$50,000A thunderstorm produced lightning that started a house fire.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindBuda$20,000no account filed
May 2021Thunderstorm WindBuda$5,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that knocked down a few trees in Buda.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindBuda$5,000Severe winds blew over trees and sheds.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindBuda$1,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 50 to 60 mph that knocked down some one inch tree limbs near Buda.
March 2025HailBuda-A thunderstorm produced nickel size hail south of Buda.
October 2021Flash FloodBuda-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 2020HailBuda-A thunderstorm produced quarter inch hail south of Buda.
September 2020Flash FloodBuda-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 2020Flash FloodBuda-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 2017HailBuda-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail at Cabela's in Buda.
August 2016Flash FloodBuda-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding sending water over the road in Leisurewoods near Buda.
May 2016Flash FloodBuda-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding resulting in a water rescue in Buda.
May 2016Flash FloodBuda-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding resulting in high water rescues in Buda with many low water crossings closed.
May 2005Flash FloodBuda-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 1995Thunderstorm WindBuda-Large trees were knocked over.
May 1993HailBuda-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 2014HailBuda-no account filed
April 2012HailBuda-no account filed
May 1999HailBuda-no account filed
September 1996HailBuda-no account filed
April 1995HailBuda-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hays 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
Flatrock Ford2.9 miles18
Hays3.1 miles18
Mountain City4.1 miles18
Goforth5.0 miles18
Kyle6.9 miles16
Hays City8.3 miles18
Bear Creek9.1 miles19
Driftwood10.4 miles15

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 BudaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q379043The 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.