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Manchaca, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Austin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78748. It stands on Little Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oak Hill quadrangle. 2,266 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Manchaca within Travis County

Population over time

2 figures

Manchaca grew from 1,133 to 2,266 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
20101,133
20202,266+1,133 (+100%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

60 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Manchaca between 2005 and 2020, burning about 136 acres in total. None 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/undetermined36
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking4
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use52 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceESTANCIA
12 September 2006Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service88335
9 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 July 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service16062234

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 Manchaca: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Dimension. 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
Buda QuarryLimestone, General, Stone, DimensionProducerLimestone
South Austin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Travis County

Storms near this place

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manchaca in 10 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
July 2021LightningManchaca$100,000Lightning caused a house to catch fire in Manchaca.
March 1993HailManchaca$50,000no account filed
March 2025Thunderstorm WindManchaca-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 50 to 60 mph in Manchaca.
April 2024HailManchaca-A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail in Manchaca for ten minutes.
May 2020Flash FloodManchaca-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding in South Austin. An mPING report stated streets were flooded near Old Manchaca Rd. near a creek called Nichols Branch.
May 2015Tornado (EF0)Manchaca-A NWS storm survey found evidence that an EF-0 tornado went through the Shady Hollow area off Brodie Ln. in south Austin. Numerous streets had significant tree damage along with some minor roof damage to some homes. The tornado moved NE and appears to have dissipated near W Slaughter Ln. Wind damage was reported farther NE into the city of Austin, but this damage could not conclusively be associated with this tornado path. Peak winds were estimated at 85 mph.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindManchaca-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that blew down an eight inch diameter China Berry, a five inch diameter Elm, and many tree limbs.
September 2014Flash FloodManchaca-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding. ATXFloods reported approximately 50 low water crossings closed around Austin and other parts of Travis County. Rainfall totals exceeding six inches were reported in the area.
May 2014HailManchaca-no account filed
March 1993HailManchaca-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
San Leanna0.9 miles18
Ford Oaks2.2 miles18
Shady Hollow2.3 miles18
Tanglewood Forest2.4 miles18
Onion Creek2.6 miles18
Bluff Springs3.6 miles18
Turnersville4.3 miles18
Kincheonville4.3 miles18

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 ManchacaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q973310The 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 1380881. 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.