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Garfield, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Austin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78617. The Survey maps it on the Webberville quadrangle. 1,825 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 479 feet above sea level.

Garfield within Travis County

Population over time

3 figures

Garfield grew from 1,660 to 1,825 between 2000 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
20001,660
20101,698+38 (+2%)
20201,825+127 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

99 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Garfield between 1993 and 2016, burning about 311 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 burning70
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
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
9 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service132 MAHA DR
9 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service362 OLD 71
8 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service71 HWY W
7 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service139 STONY POINT DR
5 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 40
29 September 2011Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 535
22 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTONY CREEK DR
15 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceLAZY RIVER LN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Travis County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Garfield: 5 producers, 2 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Berdoll Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Birdall PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Sand
Green PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Shapard PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Shapard PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Texas Industries Inc Hacket Pit 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Texas Industries Inc Hacket Pit 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Travis County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garfield in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 3 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
February 2025HailGarfield-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail southeast of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.
March 2023HailGarfield-no account filed
April 2014HailGarfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Travis 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
Webberville3.7 miles18
Dunlap4.2 miles18
Hornsby Bend4.4 miles18
Del Valle5.4 miles20
Moores Crossing5.8 miles20
Elroy6.2 miles18
Pilot Knob7.3 miles20
Smoot7.8 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 GarfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978487The 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 1336402. 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.

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.