Round Mountain, Texas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Johnson City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78663. It stands on North Cypress Creek. The Survey maps it on the Round Mountain quadrangle. 101 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,280 feet above sea level.
On record in Round Mountain
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- Round Mountain Stage-Coach Inn and Stablelisted 1978
Population over time
2 figuresRound Mountain fell from 181 to 101 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 | 181 | |
| 2020 | 101 | -80 (-44%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1887 USGS Blanco quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Blanco quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Round Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Pedernales River quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
110 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Round Mountain between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,635 acres in total. None 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 | 71 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 22 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WINNIE SMITH |
| 4 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 4.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COASTAL FIRE |
| 30 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FIRE PIT |
| 25 September 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | 4.3 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BLUFFS FIRE |
| 24 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | SMOKE INVESTIGATE |
| 22 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROAD SIDE FIRE |
| 14 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 10 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 7.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSH PILES |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Round Mountain in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 1994: 3 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1994 | Hail | Round Mountain | $5,000 | no account filed |
| October 1993 | Hail | Round Mountain | - | Hail up to quarter-size was reported in Walnut Hills in the northern part of the County. Several minutes later dime to quarter- size hail was reported in Round Mountain. |
| October 1993 | Hail | Round Mountain | - | Hail up to golf ball-size hit Round Mountain for the second time that night. Golf ball-size hail was also reported in the City of Blanco. At 4:55 local time golf ball-size hail was reported in Blanco again. Several windows were broken out this time and several trees were damaged. High winds uprooted some trees. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cypress Mill | 6.1 miles | 14 | |
| Sandy | 8.2 miles | 15 | |
| Johnson City | 11.3 miles | 15 | |
| Blowout | 12.4 miles | 11 | |
| Post Oak | 13.7 miles | 12 | |
| Westbrook (historical) | 14.8 miles | 12 | |
| Rocky Creek | 15.6 miles | 12 | |
| Hye | 17.7 miles | 13 |
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 Round Mountain | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981876 | 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 1366933. 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.
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.






