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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.

The Hills within Travis County

Population over time

3 figures

The 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.

YearPeople Change
20001,492
20102,472+980 (+66%)
20202,613+141 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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

17 since 2006

Regional 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/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2
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
12 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFALCON HEAD
23 August 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service71 EAST
23 August 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceEAST 71
4 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service16061947
4 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSYLVESTER FORD
27 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use370 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMAGNOLIA FIRE (RR3238)
16 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service15500 W SH 71
13 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service200001447

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
Lakeway1.4 miles23
Point Venture2.2 miles24
Buffalo Gap2.9 miles24
Bee Cave3.4 miles23
Edgewater Beach3.9 miles24
North Shore Acres4.8 miles24
Briarcliff5.2 miles17
Hudson Bend5.6 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.

Wikipedia article on The HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2533757The 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.