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Meadowlakes, Texas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Marble Falls census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78654. It stands on Varnhagan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Marble Falls quadrangle. 1,907 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 804 feet above sea level.

Meadowlakes within Burnet County

Population over time

2 figures

Meadowlakes grew from 1,777 to 1,907 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
20101,777
20201,907+130 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 19 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

138 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Meadowlakes between 2004 and 2020, burning about 1,971 acres in total. 2 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 burning68
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Equipment and vehicle use15
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes1

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
6 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service19455
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service19452
5 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePRAIRIE CREEK
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service19448
3 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEAST 1431
3 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.9 acresBalcones Canyon National Wildlife RefugeCR 401 FIRE
26 September 2011Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTOKIM RD
23 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCEDAR TRAIL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burnet County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Meadowlakes: 16 producers, 2 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 prospect. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension, Limestone, High Calcium, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Calcium Carbonate Company PitCalciumProspect
Collier Bros Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Granite MountainBromineProducer
Limestone QuarryLimestone, General, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Michel MineLimestone, High CalciumProducerLimestone
Phosphate OccurrencePhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence
Slaughter Gap AreaLeadOccurrence
Sunset Beige QuarryStone, DimensionProducerGranite
Sunset Red QuarryStone, DimensionProducerGranite
Bilbrough Marble Botticino QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Burnet 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
Cottonwood Shores1.5 miles19
Marble Falls1.7 miles19
Sherwood Shores3.9 miles19
Granite Shoals5.0 miles19
Shovel Mountain5.5 miles14
Fairland5.7 miles19
Scobee5.8 miles19
Highland Haven6.1 miles19

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 MeadowlakesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q971166The 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 1388587. 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.