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Hutto, Texas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Taylor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78634. The Survey maps it on the Hutto quadrangle. 46,048 people lived here at the 2025 count. It stands 663 feet above sea level.

Hutto within Williamson County

On record in Hutto

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Hutto grew from 14,698 to 27,577 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
201014,698
202027,577+12,879 (+88%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

165 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Hutto between 2005 and 2017, burning about 1,546 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/undetermined114
Debris and open burning32
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
3 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13-0000951
27 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000943
21 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service16-0001381
21 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13-0001031
20 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service17-92000016
1 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service15-0001152
9 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service15-0001034

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson County

Storms near this place

36 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hutto in 36 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 20 hail, 9 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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
May 2015Flash FloodHutto1 killed, $7,000,000Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding around the county. Numerous roads were closed including Hairy Man Rd. The Bull Run Creek hike and bike trail was flooded. A 55 year old man died when his vehicle was swept away near CR 143 and Hwy 195 north of Georgetown. 38 homes were destroyed and 57 homes sustained major damage. Losses for infrastructure totaled more than 7 million dollars.
September 1995Thunderstorm WindHutto$1,000,000Roofs were blown off houses as well as the main building of the High School in Hutto. Classes had to be cancelled for the following day. Several barns were flattened, trees were blown over and power lines were destroyed north of Hutto. A high school football game, already underway, was cancelled as the storm approached, and all persons evacuated into the school. This quick action no doubt prevented numerous injuries.
May 2008LightningHutto$5,000There was a lightning strike that caused a house fire on Legends of Hutto Trail near state highway 1660.
July 2018Tornado (EF0)Hutto$1,000Several videos from social media show a weak tornado formed along an outflow boundary near Limmer Loop on the east side of Round Rock. From video it appears this was a landspout tornado and not associated with a thunderstorm. There was one backyard shed that was heavily damaged. This damage was near Limmer Loop and Will Smith Dr. The tornado only lasted about a minute or two and appears to have moved southwest toward CR 110 where it quickly dissipated. Maximum winds are estimated to be at 70 mph.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindHutto$1,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that damaged a fence in Hutto.
April 2025HailHutto-A thunderstorm produced penny size hail west of Hutto.
April 2025HailHutto-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail at the intersection of Paloma Lake Blvd. and Diego Dr. on the northeast side of Round Rock.
April 2025HailHutto-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail at the intersection of CR 110 and Limmer Loop on the northeast side of Round Rock.
April 2025HailHutto-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail south of Hutto.
April 2025HailHutto-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail north of Hutto.
April 2025HailHutto-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail northeast of Hutto.
March 2025HailHutto-A thunderstorm produced penny size hail in Hutto.
May 2024HailHutto-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail on the eastside of Hutto.
May 2024HailHutto-A thunderstorm produced chicken egg size hail in Hutto.
April 2024HailHutto-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Hutto.
April 2022HailHutto-A thunderstorms produced half dollar size hail in Hutto.
April 2022HailHutto-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail in Hutto.
April 2022HailHutto-A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail in Hutto.
April 2019Flash FloodHutto-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that sent water from Cottonwood Creek over the FM 1660 bridge north of Hutto.
April 2019Flash FloodHutto-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing FM 1660 near the New Hope Church south of Hutto. The flooding was between Brushy Creek and Cottonwood Creek.
April 2018HailHutto-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail near the intersection of Hwy 79 and Hwy 130 west of Hutto.
August 2017Flash FloodHutto-Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Harvey caused flash flooding closing CR 123 at Brushy Creek near Hutto.
April 2016Flash FloodHutto-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing CR 123 at Brushy Creek.
May 2016Flash FloodHutto-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing CR123 south of Hwy 79 near Brushy Creek. Numerous other locations in Williamson County had water over roadways.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindHutto-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that caused some roof damage.
May 2015Flash FloodHutto-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain with 6.67 inches in three and half hours that caused flash flooding. The Forest Creek Golf Club was flooded with Forest Creek Dr. closed at the clubhouse.
September 2014Flash FloodHutto-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing County Road 105 and County Road 110 at Highway 79.
September 2010Flash FloodHutto-Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Hermine produced flash flooding which stranded two cars: one in Round Rock at the intersection of Wyoming Springs Drive and Cloud Peak Lane and the other in Cedar Park in the 1000 block of Great Oaks Drive.
November 2004Funnel CloudHutto-Skywarn-trained Amateur Radio Operators observed a small funnel as it dipped below clouds near Hutto. It quickly lifted back into the thunderstorm without touching down.
November 2004Tornado (F0)Hutto-A Skywarn-trained Amateur Radio Spotter observed a small tornado as it touched down north of Hutto about 15 minutes after the Round Rock tornado. This tornado was estimated at 30yds wide and moved toward the northeast for approximately one quarter mile long before lifting and dissipating. The tornado was also rated F0 on the Fujita Scale.
May 2008HailHutto-no account filed
May 2008HailHutto-no account filed
April 2006HailHutto-no account filed
April 2005HailHutto-no account filed
November 2001HailHutto-no account filed
April 1997HailHutto-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Williamson 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
Norman4.4 miles17
Normans Crossing4.6 miles17
Frame Switch4.6 miles15
Rices Crossing6.4 miles17
Jonah6.6 miles17
Round Rock7.4 miles19
Old Round Rock (historical)7.4 miles19
Taylor7.5 miles15

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 HuttoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969349The 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 1359869. 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.

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.