Round Mountain, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Northwest Travis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78641. It stands on Bingham Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nameless quadrangle.

Round Mountain within Travis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1893 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1962 USGS Nameless quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Nameless quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

81 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Round Mountain between 1999 and 2020, burning about 246 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
27 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	2020002006
13 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	3131 CR 284
13 September 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	POWELL DR & HORSESHOE DR
11 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	308 SPRING CREEK
8 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Balcones Canyon National Wildlife Refuge	LONGHOLLOW HILL
6 August 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 August 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
29 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.6 acres	Balcones Canyon National Wildlife Refuge	BURNT TRUCK FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Travis 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Nameless	3.6 miles	14
Jonestown	5.6 miles	24
South Jonestown Hills	7.3 miles	24
Lago Vista	8.3 miles	24
Volente	10.0 miles	24
Hudson Bend	10.9 miles	24
North Shore Acres	11.1 miles	24
Edgewater Beach	12.3 miles	24

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 Q121989494	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 2034570. 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.