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Hudson Bend, Texas

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Southwest Travis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78734. It lies near Pool Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Mansfield Dam quadrangle. 4,005 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 755 feet above sea level.

Hudson Bend within Travis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

33 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Hudson Bend between 2008 and 2020, burning about 186 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning3
Other causes2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBalcones Canyon National Wildlife RefugeBLONDIE FIRE
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined125 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTEINER RANCH FIRE
3 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCRYSTAL COVE
26 August 2009Naturalunder an acreBalcones Canyon National Wildlife RefugeDRIVE BY FIRE
19 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.9 acresTexas A & M Forest Service19432
16 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service20200001672
5 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHORELINE RANCH
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHORELINE RANCH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Volente1.8 miles24
North Shore Acres1.8 miles24
Marshall Ford2.8 miles24
Buffalo Gap2.8 miles24
Steiner Ranch3.6 miles24
South Jonestown Hills3.7 miles24
Edgewater Beach3.8 miles24
Four Points4.1 miles23

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 Hudson BendAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q513901The 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 1852714. 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.