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Mountain City, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Kyle-Buda census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78610. The Survey maps it on the Mountain City quadrangle. 622 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 823 feet above sea level.

Mountain City within Hays County

Population over time

3 figures

Mountain City fell from 671 to 622 between 2000 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
2000671
2010648-23 (-3%)
2020622-26 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

45 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Mountain City between 2005 and 2020, burning about 333 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined23
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Natural1

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 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGROOS FIRE
6 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
31 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceKYLE CROSSING
22 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH 35
18 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH 35
12 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH 35
6 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceKOHLERS CROSSING

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hays County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Mountain City: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Clay, 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
Texas Cement Quarry & PlantClay, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Howe Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Howe PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Hays 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
Flatrock Ford2.3 miles18
Kyle3.4 miles16
Buda4.1 miles18
Goforth5.1 miles18
Hays City5.4 miles18
Hays6.0 miles18
Centex9.4 miles16
Driftwood9.7 miles15

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 Mountain CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q973832The 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 1378711. 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.