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McDade, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Elgin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78650. The Survey maps it on the McDade quadrangle. 720 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 515 feet above sea level.

McDade within Bastrop County

Population over time

2 figures

McDade grew from 685 to 720 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
2010685
2020720+35 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of McDade between 1992 and 2019, burning about 37,752 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use13
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2003Equipment and vehicle use163 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTRAL TX - 41
8 September 2009Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOCTOBERFEST TRAIL
8 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOAK HILL CEMETERY RD
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution34,068 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBASTROP COUNTY COMPLEX
4 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2019Natural91 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNIT 15
19 September 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bastrop County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of McDade: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Elgin Butler Brick Plant and PitsClayProducer
Landing Strip PitClayProducerClay
Plant No. 1ClayProducer
Unnamed PitsClayProducerClay
Unnamed PitsClayProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Bastrop 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
Butler4.0 miles17
Sayersville5.9 miles16
Swiftex6.7 miles16
Camp Swift7.0 miles16
Pleasant Grove (historical)8.0 miles16
Paige8.3 miles16
Elgin8.4 miles17
Circle D Estates8.6 miles17

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 McDadeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q973295The 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 1341178. 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.