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Hornsby Bend, 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 78724. The Survey maps it on the Webberville quadrangle. 12,168 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Hornsby Bend within Travis County

Population over time

2 figures

Hornsby Bend grew from 6,791 to 12,168 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
20106,791
202012,168+5,377 (+79%)

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

39 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Hornsby Bend between 1998 and 2016, burning about 181 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning4
Smoking2
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
8 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service71 HWY W
19 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM973
28 August 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM969
24 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 August 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceDECKER LAKE
10 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBLUE BLUFF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Travis County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Hornsby Bend: 8 producers, 1 past producer. 8 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
Austin Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Birdall PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Sand
Green PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
J.V. Dirt and Loam 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
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working 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
Dunlap1.3 miles18
Webberville3.7 miles18
Smoot4.1 miles19
Garfield4.4 miles18
Decker4.5 miles17
Del Valle4.6 miles20
Daffan5.5 miles19
Montopolis5.7 miles20

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 Hornsby BendAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6444763The 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 1374135. 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.