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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.

Cottonwood Shores within Burnet County

Population over time

2 figures

Cottonwood 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,123
20201,403+280 (+25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 19 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

120 since 2004

Regional 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 burning60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Equipment and vehicle use17
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service19455
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service19452
5 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePRAIRIE CREEK
23 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCEDAR TRAIL
23 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBURN PILES
22 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTOBEYVILLE
2 September 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service123 HICKORY CREEK
9 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined33 acresBalcones Canyon National Wildlife RefugeTRIMAC

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burnet County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Calcium Carbonate Company PitCalciumProspect
Collier Bros Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Granite MountainBromineProducer
Limestone QuarryLimestone, General, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Michel MineLimestone, High CalciumProducerLimestone
Phosphate OccurrencePhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence
Capitol Marble and Granite Tx PinkGraniteProducer
Texas Granite Corp Pearl Gray QyGraniteProducer
Colaska QuarryStone, DimensionProducerGranite
Pearl Gray QuarryStone, DimensionProducerGranite

Every working recorded in Burnet 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
Meadowlakes1.5 miles19
Marble Falls3.1 miles19
Sherwood Shores3.2 miles19
Granite Shoals3.9 miles19
Highland Haven5.3 miles19
Shovel Mountain5.6 miles14
Scobee6.2 miles19
Fairland6.4 miles19

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 ShoresAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981744The 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.