Cedar Creek, Texas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cedar Creek-Red Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78612. It stands on Maha Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lytton Springs quadrangle. 3,154 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 423 feet above sea level.
On record in Cedar Creek
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 1 record
Hopewell Schoollisted 2015
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1896 USGS Austin quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Austin quadrangle1:125000
- 1910 USGS Austin quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Montopolis quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Lytton Springs quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Austin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
322 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 322 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,739 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 245 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 46 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | MARTIN LN |
| 9 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 362 OLD 71 |
| 8 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | ESCONDIDO |
| 8 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | TUCK ST |
| 8 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 719 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | UNION CHAPEL |
| 5 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
20 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar Creek in 20 storm reports between 2004 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 5 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF1) | Cedar Creek | 1 hurt | A NWS storm survey team concluded a tornado touched down just west of Cedar Creek in Bastrop County. The tornado snapped and uprooted many trees. Twelve homes along the path of the tornado were damaged with barns and a large greenhouse destroyed. Peak winds were estimated at 105 mph. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Creek | $150,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a barn, damaged two other barns, and overturned a mobile home in the Cedar Creek area. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Cedar Creek | $30,000 | Thunderstorms produced 2 to 3 inch rain totals over northwest Bastrop County, with up to 4 inches between Cedar Creek and Utley. Many roads in Bastrop County were closed due to high water, including FM969 and FM1704. |
| May 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Cedar Creek | $10,000 | A small, weak tornado touched down along County Road 242, McDonald Ln. E., and generally toward the east producing EF0 damage to a home at the corner of Martins Crossing Dr. and Single Oak Crossing. There was damage to several fences and the roof and chimney of one house. Winds were estimated to be 80 mph. |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Creek | $5,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 65 mph that caused damage to some trees and a house in Cedar Creek. |
| April 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Creek | $2,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 50 mph that damaged some awnings and other structures. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Cedar Creek | - | Thunderstorm produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing Hwy 21 near Maha Creek in Cedar Creek. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Creek | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that caused heavy damage to a residential structure. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Creek | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that blew over several very large trees. |
| March 2012 | Flash Flood | Cedar Creek | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing Jenkins Rd and FM535 near Cedar Creek. |
| January 2012 | Flash Flood | Cedar Creek | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain which caused flooding in several subdivisions in and near Cedar Creek. A CoCoRAHS observer west-northwest of Bastrop reported 9.35 inches of rain from these storms. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Cedar Creek | - | A thunderstorm produced pea to penny size hail for 10 minutes. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Cedar Creek | - | Thunderstorms over Bastrop County produced between 1 and 2 inches of rain, with highest amounts near 4 inches in the Bastrop area. FM20 and FM1441 were closed due to high water. |
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Creek | - | Severe thunderstorm winds blew down several oak trees along FM535 near Cedar Creek. |
| November 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Creek | - | The Bastrop County Sheriff's Department reported several trees blown down near Cedar Creek by severe thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Cedar Creek | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Cedar Creek | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Cedar Creek | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Cedar Creek | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Cedar Creek | - | 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.
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 Cedar Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5056603 | 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 1332390. 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.
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.






