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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.

Round Mountain within Blanco County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Round 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.

YearPeople Change
2010181
2020101-80 (-44%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

110 since 2005

Regional 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 burning71
Equipment and vehicle use22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use4.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWINNIE SMITH
4 September 2016Debris and open burning4.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOASTAL FIRE
30 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE PIT
25 September 2017Recreation and ceremony4.3 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBLUFFS FIRE
24 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSMOKE INVESTIGATE
22 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceROAD SIDE FIRE
14 September 2008Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2017Debris and open burning7.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH PILES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blanco County

Storms near this place

3 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1994HailRound Mountain$5,000no account filed
October 1993HailRound 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 1993HailRound 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.

Every storm recorded in Blanco 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
Cypress Mill6.1 miles14
Sandy8.2 miles15
Johnson City11.3 miles15
Blowout12.4 miles11
Post Oak13.7 miles12
Westbrook (historical)14.8 miles12
Rocky Creek15.6 miles12
Hye17.7 miles13

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 MountainAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981876The 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.