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Jonestown, Texas

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Northwest Travis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78645. It lies near Collier Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Mansfield Dam quadrangle. 2,365 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 814 feet above sea level.

Jonestown within Travis County

On record in Jonestown

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

3 figures

Jonestown grew from 1,681 to 2,365 between 2000 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
20001,681
20101,834+153 (+9%)
20202,365+531 (+29%)

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

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Jonestown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 240 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined46
Equipment and vehicle use11
Debris and open burning10
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking1
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 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBalcones Canyon National Wildlife RefugeBLONDIE FIRE
27 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2020002006
27 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBalcones Canyon National Wildlife RefugePOLE
13 September 2013Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceLANSING CV
3 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCRYSTAL COVE
29 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.6 acresBalcones Canyon National Wildlife RefugeBURNT TRUCK FIRE
29 August 1993Natural10 acresBalcones Canyon National Wildlife RefugeVICTORIA
27 August 2014Natural2.0 acresBalcones Canyon National Wildlife RefugeRANGER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Travis County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Jonestown: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Featherlite CorpStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Travis County

Storms near this place

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jonestown in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 8 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 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
March 2009HailJonestown$160,000,000A thunderstorm moved through the Austin area and produced hail ranging from quarter to teacup size. We received 14 reports of severe size hail, nine of which were two inches or larger. The teacup size hail was reported by the media and fell near the Austin Arboretum.
September 2012Flash FloodJonestown$100,000Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding down Big Sandy Creek that washed several docks, that were on dry land near drought stricken Lake Travis, down stream. Upstream rainfall of 7.75 inches in approximately three hours caused a 10 foot rise on the creek.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindJonestown$2,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 65 mph that knocked down some three inch tree limbs and damaged a roof in Jonestown.
May 2025HailJonestown-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail on the west side of Cedar Park.
April 2023HailJonestown-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail southwest of Leander.
May 2023HailJonestown-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail near Jonestown.
May 2023HailJonestown-A thunderstorm produced two inch diameter hail in Jonestown.
May 2015Tornado (EF0)Jonestown-A NWS storm survey found evidence of a weak EF-0 tornado that initially touched down near FM 1431 and produced damage at a school. The tornado traveled northeast and caused considerable tree damage in the Indian Hills subdivision before dissipating right near the Williamson County line. Other wind damage was observed near New Hope Dr., but could not conclusively be associated with this tornado path. Peak winds were estimated at 85 mph.
September 2010Flash FloodJonestown-Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Hermine produced flash flooding which closed Lime Creek Road south of Fisher Hollow near Cedar Park.
October 2006Flash FloodJonestown-Thunderstorms produced 2 to 3 inches of rain from Lago Vista westward to the Burnet County line. Highest amounts were 4 inches at Lago Vista. Law enforcement reported that FM2222 and FM1431were were closed due to flash flooding.
May 2008HailJonestown-no account filed
May 1999HailJonestown-no account filed
April 1995HailJonestown-no account filed

Every storm 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
South Jonestown Hills1.9 miles24
Nameless2.0 miles14
Lago Vista4.2 miles24
Volente4.4 miles24
Hudson Bend5.4 miles24
Round Mountain5.6 miles14
North Shore Acres5.9 miles24
Four Points7.3 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 JonestownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1136080The 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 1360424. 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.