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.
Population over time
2 figuresLakeway 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 11,391 | |
| 2020 | 19,189 | +7,798 (+68%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 23 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1896 USGS Austin quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Austin quadrangle1:125000
- 1910 USGS Austin quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1932 USGS Mt. Bonnell quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Lake Travis quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1968 USGS Bee Cave quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Austin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Bee Cave quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
23 since 2006Regional 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/undetermined | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 20200001946 |
| 12 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FALCON HEAD |
| 23 August 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 71 EAST |
| 23 August 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | EAST 71 |
| 4 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SHORELINE RANCH FIRE |
| 4 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 16061947 |
| 4 July 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | SYLVESTER FORD |
| 27 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 370 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MAGNOLIA FIRE (RR3238) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1997 | Tornado (F4) | Lakeway | 1 killed, 5 hurt, $15,000,000 | no account filed |
| October 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakeway | - | 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. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Point Venture | 0.8 miles | 24 | |
| The Hills | 1.4 miles | 23 | |
| Buffalo Gap | 2.3 miles | 24 | |
| Edgewater Beach | 2.5 miles | 24 | |
| North Shore Acres | 3.6 miles | 24 | |
| Briarcliff | 3.9 miles | 17 | |
| Hudson Bend | 4.7 miles | 24 | |
| Bee Cave | 4.8 miles | 23 |
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 Lakeway | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q974112 | The 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.








