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South Jonestown Hills, Texas

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Northwest Travis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78645. It lies near Barrel Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Mansfield Dam quadrangle.

South Jonestown Hills within Travis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

85 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of South Jonestown Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 172 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined45
Equipment and vehicle use8
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBalcones Canyon National Wildlife RefugeBLONDIE FIRE
27 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2020002006
27 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBalcones Canyon National Wildlife RefugePOLE
13 September 2013Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceLANSING CV
3 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCRYSTAL COVE
29 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.6 acresBalcones Canyon National Wildlife RefugeBURNT TRUCK FIRE
29 August 1993Natural10 acresBalcones Canyon National Wildlife RefugeVICTORIA
27 August 2014Natural2.0 acresBalcones Canyon National Wildlife RefugeRANGER

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Jonestown1.9 miles24
Lago Vista2.7 miles24
Volente3.1 miles24
Hudson Bend3.7 miles24
Nameless3.8 miles14
North Shore Acres4.0 miles24
Edgewater Beach5.6 miles24
Marshall Ford6.0 miles24

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.

Wikidata item Q122548585The 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 1368703. 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.