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Granite Shoals, 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 78654. It stands on Elm Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dunman Mountain quadrangle. 5,129 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 879 feet above sea level.

Granite Shoals within Burnet County

Population over time

2 figures

Granite Shoals grew from 4,910 to 5,129 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
20104,910
20205,129+219 (+4%)

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

98 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Granite Shoals between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,586 acres in total. 3 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 burning45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service19452
5 September 2017Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2899/2233
5 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePRAIRIE CREEK
27 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1980
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 2018Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service18449
2 September 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service123 HICKORY CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burnet County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Granite Shoals: 10 producers, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension, Granite, Talc-Soapstone. 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
Disintegrated FeldsparFeldsparUnknown
Kingsland AreaTalc-SoapstoneOccurrenceMetamorphic
Capitol Marble and Granite Tx PinkGraniteProducer
Texas Granite Corp Pearl Gray QyGraniteProducer
Colaska QuarryStone, DimensionProducerGranite
Pearl Gray QuarryStone, DimensionProducerGranite
Sunset Beige QuarryStone, DimensionProducerGranite
Texas Pink QuarryStone, DimensionProducerGranite
Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerGranite
Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerGranite

Every working recorded in Burnet County

Storms near this place

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Granite Shoals in 2 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 1993Thunderstorm WindGranite Shoals$50,000The Marble Falls Police Department reported power lines down near Granite Shoals.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindGranite Shoals-Roofs of homes damaged by strong winds. Winds were reported gusting to just over 50 mph. The actual gust speed was measured by a school computer weather system.

Every storm 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
Sherwood Shores1.4 miles19
Highland Haven1.5 miles19
Cottonwood Shores3.9 miles19
Meadowlakes5.0 miles19
Scobee5.3 miles19
Marble Falls5.9 miles19
Fairland6.5 miles19
Sudduth8.4 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 Granite ShoalsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q939477The 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 1388555. 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.