Cottonwood Shores, Texas
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Marble Falls census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78657. It stands on Deep Creek. The Survey maps it on the Marble Falls quadrangle. 1,403 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 830 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCottonwood Shores grew from 1,123 to 1,403 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 | 1,123 | |
| 2020 | 1,403 | +280 (+25%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 19 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 3-d quadrangle1:48000
- 1929 USGS Marble Falls quadrangle1:62500
- 1932 USGS Marble Falls quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Marble Falls quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Llano quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Llano quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
120 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Cottonwood Shores between 2004 and 2020, burning about 1,748 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 60 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 19455 |
| 5 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 19452 |
| 5 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PRAIRIE CREEK |
| 23 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CEDAR TRAIL |
| 23 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BURN PILES |
| 22 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TOBEYVILLE |
| 2 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 123 HICKORY CREEK |
| 9 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 33 acres | Balcones Canyon National Wildlife Refuge | TRIMAC |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 23 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Cottonwood Shores: 21 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 21 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension, Granite, Limestone, High Calcium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calcium Carbonate Company Pit | Calcium | Prospect | ||
| Collier Bros Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Granite Mountain | Bromine | Producer | ||
| Limestone Quarry | Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Michel Mine | Limestone, High Calcium | Producer | Limestone | |
| Phosphate Occurrence | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Occurrence | ||
| Capitol Marble and Granite Tx Pink | Granite | Producer | ||
| Texas Granite Corp Pearl Gray Qy | Granite | Producer | ||
| Colaska Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Producer | Granite | |
| Pearl Gray Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Producer | Granite |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meadowlakes | 1.5 miles | 19 | |
| Marble Falls | 3.1 miles | 19 | |
| Sherwood Shores | 3.2 miles | 19 | |
| Granite Shoals | 3.9 miles | 19 | |
| Highland Haven | 5.3 miles | 19 | |
| Shovel Mountain | 5.6 miles | 14 | |
| Scobee | 6.2 miles | 19 | |
| Fairland | 6.4 miles | 19 |
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 Cottonwood Shores | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981744 | 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 1385470. 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.












