South Mountain, Texas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Gatesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76528. The Survey maps it on the Gatesville East quadrangle. 411 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,020 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSouth Mountain grew from 384 to 411 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 | 384 | |
| 2020 | 411 | +27 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 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.
- 1894 USGS Gatesville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Gatesville East quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Gatesville quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Gatesville East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Gatesville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Temple quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Gatesville East quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
258 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 258 fires within 5 miles of South Mountain between 2005 and 2020, burning about 680 acres in total. 3 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 | 113 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 71 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 36 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 15 |
| Smoking | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BERRY FIRE |
| 7 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 300 S HIGHWAY 36 BYPASS |
| 7 September 2012 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRIM FIRE |
| 7 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | POWELL FARM FIRE |
| 6 September 2011 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BARTON LANE FIRE |
| 5 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 1829 & FM 107 |
| 4 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BERRY FIRE |
| 4 September 2011 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 929 FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Gates | 2.5 miles | 16 | |
| Gatesville | 3.6 miles | 16 | |
| Pecan Grove (historical) | 4.9 miles | 16 | |
| Mound | 5.6 miles | 16 | |
| Leon Junction | 7.4 miles | 17 | |
| Lime City | 8.3 miles | 16 | |
| Ames | 8.4 miles | 12 | |
| Flat | 8.6 miles | 16 |
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 South Mountain | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982407 | 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 1368723. 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.








