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Sunset Valley, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Austin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78745. The Survey maps it on the Oak Hill quadrangle. 683 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 666 feet above sea level.

Sunset Valley within Travis County

Population over time

3 figures

Sunset Valley grew from 365 to 683 between 2000 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
2000365
2010749+384 (+105%)
2020683-66 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

139 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Sunset Valley between 2005 and 2020, burning about 144 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/undetermined90
Smoking21
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2008Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

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
Williamson1.0 miles18
Vinson1.3 miles18
Kincheonville2.3 miles18
Pleasant Hill2.8 miles18
Oak Hill3.1 miles18
Rollingwood3.6 miles25
Ford Oaks3.9 miles18
Tanglewood Forest4.0 miles18

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 Sunset ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977467The 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 1376344. 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.