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.
Population over time
2 figuresMcDade 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 685 | |
| 2020 | 720 | +35 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 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.
- 1885 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:125000
- 1904 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1982 USGS McDade quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Austin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
80 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 33 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 163 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CENTRAL TX - 41 |
| 8 September 2009 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OCTOBERFEST TRAIL |
| 8 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OAK HILL CEMETERY RD |
| 4 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 34,068 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BASTROP COUNTY COMPLEX |
| 4 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 2019 | Natural | 91 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | UNIT 15 |
| 19 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elgin Butler Brick Plant and Pits | Clay | Producer | ||
| Landing Strip Pit | Clay | Producer | Clay | |
| Plant No. 1 | Clay | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pits | Clay | Producer | Clay | |
| Unnamed Pits | Clay | Producer | Sedimentary |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Butler | 4.0 miles | 17 | |
| Sayersville | 5.9 miles | 16 | |
| Swiftex | 6.7 miles | 16 | |
| Camp Swift | 7.0 miles | 16 | |
| Pleasant Grove (historical) | 8.0 miles | 16 | |
| Paige | 8.3 miles | 16 | |
| Elgin | 8.4 miles | 17 | |
| Circle D Estates | 8.6 miles | 17 |
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 McDade | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q973295 | 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 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.







