The Hills, Texas
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Southwest Travis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78738. It lies near Maul Hill. The Survey maps it on the Bee Cave quadrangle. 2,613 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 817 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresThe Hills grew from 1,492 to 2,613 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,492 | |
| 2010 | 2,472 | +980 (+66%) |
| 2020 | 2,613 | +141 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 23 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.
- 1896 USGS Austin quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Austin quadrangle1:125000
- 1910 USGS Austin quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1932 USGS Mt. Bonnell quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Lake Travis quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1968 USGS Bee Cave quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Austin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Bee Cave quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
17 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of The Hills between 2006 and 2020, burning about 389 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FALCON HEAD |
| 23 August 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 71 EAST |
| 23 August 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | EAST 71 |
| 4 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 16061947 |
| 4 July 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | SYLVESTER FORD |
| 27 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 370 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MAGNOLIA FIRE (RR3238) |
| 16 July 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 15500 W SH 71 |
| 13 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 200001447 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeway | 1.4 miles | 23 | |
| Point Venture | 2.2 miles | 24 | |
| Buffalo Gap | 2.9 miles | 24 | |
| Bee Cave | 3.4 miles | 23 | |
| Edgewater Beach | 3.9 miles | 24 | |
| North Shore Acres | 4.8 miles | 24 | |
| Briarcliff | 5.2 miles | 17 | |
| Hudson Bend | 5.6 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 The Hills | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2533757 | 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 1785535. 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.








