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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.

Dripping Springs within Hays County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Dripping 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,788
20204,650+2,862 (+160%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

108 since 2005

Regional 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 burning60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use45 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUNSON LANE
5 August 2011Arson/incendiarism10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMT. GAINOR
30 August 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 August 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 August 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMT. GAINOR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hays County

Storms near this place

1 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 1993HailDripping Springs-Dime-size hail was reported by a weather observer, just north of Dripping Springs.

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
Mount Gainor4.1 miles16
Fitzhugh4.9 miles15
Driftwood5.5 miles15
Belterra5.5 miles19
Henly6.6 miles16
Bear Creek7.5 miles19
Hays City11.1 miles18
Woodcreek11.2 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 Dripping SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q951210The 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.