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Lago Vista, 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 Bald Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Mansfield Dam quadrangle. 8,896 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 774 feet above sea level.

Lago Vista within Travis County

Population over time

2 figures

Lago Vista grew from 6,041 to 8,896 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
20106,041
20208,896+2,855 (+47%)

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

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Lago Vista between 1992 and 2020, burning about 155 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 9 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
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
7 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service16083697
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBalcones Canyon National Wildlife RefugeBLONDIE FIRE
3 September 2013Naturalunder an acreBalcones Canyon National Wildlife RefugeSINGLETON EAST
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
14 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service20200001946
14 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH/GRASS FIRE
13 September 2013Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceLANSING CV

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Travis County

Storms near this place

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lago Vista in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 12 hail, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud, 1 lightning. The reports record 3 injuries. 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
August 2002LightningLago Vista3 hurtLightning struck a building under construction in Lago Vista, slightly injuring 3 workers on the afternoon of August 8. The three were evaluated by Austin EMS but refused treatment.
March 2005HailLago Vista$100,000,000On the evening of March 25, the most destructive hailstorm in ten years struck the greater Austin Area. The total damage to homes, vehicles, businesses and property has been estimated at over $100 million. This is the greatest amount of damage due to a hailstorm since of March 25, 1993, when $125 million of damage occurred. The event began as two apparent supercells located near Marble Falls and Round Mountain merged into a line of thunderstorms as they moved eastward into Travis County. This new line stretched from near Lago Vista on the north edge, across Lake Travis and Lakeway, to near Bee Cave. The storm began producing hail up to golfball-size at Lake Travis and Lakeway between 2108 CST and 2015 CST. At the same time, near the mid part of the line, a combination of large hail and damaging winds struck near FM620 and Anderson Mill Road. The storm knocked out power to 5000 homes from northwest Austin to the Oak Hills area. As the hailstorm crossed the central and south portions of the city between 2125 CST and 2140 CST, it shattered windows in hundreds of homes and thousands of cars, as well as denting thousands of cars. By 2140 CST, the storm was on the southeast side of the city, producing hail up to 2 inches in diameter at the Travis County Exposition Center. The storm continued on toward Manor, producing 1 inch hail in 3 to 6 inch drifts in the Manor area, just prior to producing an F1 tornado. All through the life of the storm system, the greatest damage was reported along it's south end.
April 2004HailLago Vista$500,000Large hail to one inch in diameter damaged roofs and vehicles in Lago Vista.
April 2004HailLago Vista$200,000Large hail damaged roofs and broke windows in homes and vehicles. The hail was piled 4 inches deep at the Leander School.
September 1996Tornado (F1)Lago Vista$5,000no account filed
May 2023HailLago Vista-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Lago Vista.
May 2023HailLago Vista-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Lago Vista.
March 2009HailLago Vista-An amateur radio operator reported quarter size hail one mile north of the Lago Vista Airport.
March 2007Flash FloodLago Vista-Between 1 and 3 inches of rain fell in the Lago Vista area during the late evening of March 11. Flash flooding closed FM1431 as well as many other roads.
March 2005HailLago Vista-Hail at Lago Vista.
May 2023HailLago Vista-no account filed
May 2000HailLago Vista-no account filed
March 1999HailLago Vista-no account filed
July 1999Funnel CloudLago Vista-no account filed
September 1996HailLago Vista-no account filed
April 1995HailLago Vista-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 Hills2.7 miles24
North Shore Acres3.4 miles24
Edgewater Beach4.0 miles24
Jonestown4.2 miles24
Hudson Bend4.3 miles24
Briarcliff4.7 miles17
Volente4.8 miles24
Nameless5.5 miles14

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 Lago VistaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q652866The 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 1360825. 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.