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Smithwick, Texas

18 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 Hickory Creek. The Survey maps it on the Smithwick quadrangle. It stands 840 feet above sea level.

Smithwick within Burnet County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

87 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Smithwick between 1998 and 2020, burning about 684 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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 burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
5 September 2020Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service20480
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service19448
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCIMMERON RANCH
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEAST LAKE FIRE
30 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBalcones Canyon National Wildlife RefugeCEDAR FIRE 2
2 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHEART OF TEXAS RANCH
19 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHELEN'S RD
13 September 2012Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLIGHTENING STRIKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burnet County

Storms near this place

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Smithwick in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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
July 2025Flash FloodSmithwick1 killedSlow-moving thunderstorms produced 8-10 inches of rain over the headwaters of Cow Creek. Washouts occurred along CR 328/Cow Creek Rd. both along and over Cow Creek at multiple locations. A 66-year-old firefighter and his emergency vehicle were swept away while responding to flooding along Cow Creek near FM 1174. His vehicle was found 2 miles downstream mangled and entrenched within flood debris and sediment, but his body had not been recovered as of the time of this writing.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindSmithwick-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts measured at 63 mph by the Balcones Flying X RAWS.
November 2013Flash FloodSmithwick-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing FM1431 and several low water crossings in southern Burnet County.
September 1996Tornado (F0)Smithwick-no account filed

Every storm 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
Double Horn5.9 miles16
Spicewood5.9 miles16
Marble Falls6.9 miles19
Meadowlakes8.0 miles19
Sudduth8.8 miles19
Shovel Mountain8.9 miles14
Fairland9.4 miles19
Cottonwood Shores9.5 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 SmithwickAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7545688The 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 1380563. 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.