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Lakeway, Texas

23 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 stands on Yaupon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bee Cave quadrangle. 19,189 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 823 feet above sea level.

Lakeway within Travis County

Population over time

2 figures

Lakeway grew from 11,391 to 19,189 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
201011,391
202019,189+7,798 (+68%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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

23 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Lakeway between 2006 and 2020, burning about 396 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
14 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service20200001946
12 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFALCON HEAD
23 August 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service71 EAST
23 August 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceEAST 71
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHORELINE RANCH FIRE
4 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service16061947
4 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSYLVESTER FORD
27 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use370 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMAGNOLIA FIRE (RR3238)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Travis County

Storms near this place

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lakeway in 2 storm reports between 1993 and 1997: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 5 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
May 1997Tornado (F4)Lakeway1 killed, 5 hurt, $15,000,000no account filed
October 1993Thunderstorm WindLakeway-The Lakeway Police Department reported several trees knocked down in the area. Hays County 3 E Henly,19,2300CST,,,0,0,0,0,Hail (1.00) Park Ranger reported quarter-size hail between Henly and Dripping Springs.

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
Point Venture0.8 miles24
The Hills1.4 miles23
Buffalo Gap2.3 miles24
Edgewater Beach2.5 miles24
North Shore Acres3.6 miles24
Briarcliff3.9 miles17
Hudson Bend4.7 miles24
Bee Cave4.8 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 LakewayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q974112The 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 1339552. 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.