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Horseshoe Bay, Texas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It lies in ZIP code area 78657. It stands on Slickrock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Marble Falls quadrangle. 4,257 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 846 feet above sea level.

Horseshoe Bay within Llano County

Population over time

2 figures

Horseshoe Bay grew from 3,418 to 4,257 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
20103,418
20204,257+839 (+25%)

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

112 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Horseshoe Bay between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,199 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 burning50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Equipment and vehicle use17
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1
Other causes1

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
6 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service19455
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service19452
5 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePRAIRIE CREEK
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 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service123 HICKORY CREEK
9 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined33 acresBalcones Canyon National Wildlife RefugeTRIMAC
6 August 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDRIFTWOOD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Llano County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Horseshoe Bay: 17 producers, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension, Granite, Limestone, High Calcium. 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
Michel MineLimestone, High CalciumProducerLimestone
Phosphate OccurrencePhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence
Capitol Marble and Granite Tx PinkGraniteProducer
Texas Granite Corp Pearl Gray QyGraniteProducer
Colaska QuarryStone, DimensionProducerGranite
Pearl Gray QuarryStone, DimensionProducerGranite
Sunset Beige QuarryStone, DimensionProducerGranite
Sunset Red QuarryStone, DimensionProducerGranite
Texas Pink QuarryStone, DimensionProducerGranite
Bilbrough Marble Botticino QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Llano County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Horseshoe Bay in 2 storm reports in 1996: 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
July 1996Thunderstorm WindHorseshoe Bay$30,000no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindHorseshoe Bay$20,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Llano 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
Sunrise Beach Village5.2 miles19
Kingsland9.3 miles20
Lakeside Heights10.5 miles20
Click12.6 miles15
Gainesville13.2 miles15
Buchanan Dam14.1 miles20
Golden Beach18.8 miles18
Stolz19.6 miles16

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 Horseshoe BayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982068The 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 1867551. 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.