Dripping Springs, Texas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Dripping Springs-Wimberley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78620. The Survey maps it on the Dripping Springs quadrangle. 4,650 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,148 feet above sea level.
On record in Dripping Springs
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
Dripping Springs Downtown Historic Districtlisted 2013
Dr. Joseph M. and Sarah Pound Farmsteadlisted 1995
Population over time
2 figuresDripping Springs grew from 1,788 to 4,650 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 | 1,788 | |
| 2020 | 4,650 | +2,862 (+160%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 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 Blanco quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Blanco quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Dripping Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Pedernales River quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Dripping Springs quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
108 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Dripping Springs between 2005 and 2017, burning about 523 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 | 60 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 36 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 August 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 45 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUNSON LANE |
| 5 August 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MT. GAINOR |
| 30 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 23 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 13 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 12 August 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MT. GAINOR |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dripping Springs in 1 storm report in 1993: 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1993 | Hail | Dripping Springs | - | Dime-size hail was reported by a weather observer, just north of Dripping Springs. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Gainor | 4.1 miles | 16 | |
| Fitzhugh | 4.9 miles | 15 | |
| Driftwood | 5.5 miles | 15 | |
| Belterra | 5.5 miles | 19 | |
| Henly | 6.6 miles | 16 | |
| Bear Creek | 7.5 miles | 19 | |
| Hays City | 11.1 miles | 18 | |
| Woodcreek | 11.2 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 Dripping Springs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q951210 | 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 1334617. 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.







