BlockVolente, 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 78641. It lies near Gun Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Mansfield Dam quadrangle. 561 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 24 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
- 1930 USGS Austin-2 quadrangle1:48000
- 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 Mansfield Dam quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Austin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Mansfield Dam quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
30 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Volente between 2006 and 2020, burning about 216 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Balcones Canyon National Wildlife Refuge | BLONDIE FIRE |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 125 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | STEINER RANCH FIRE |
| 13 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | LANSING CV |
| 3 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CRYSTAL COVE |
| 26 August 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Balcones Canyon National Wildlife Refuge | DRIVE BY FIRE |
| 16 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 20200001672 |
| 5 July 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SHORELINE RANCH |
| 4 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SHORELINE RANCH 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hudson Bend | 1.8 miles | 24 | |
| Marshall Ford | 3.0 miles | 24 | |
| South Jonestown Hills | 3.1 miles | 24 | |
| Four Points | 3.4 miles | 23 | |
| North Shore Acres | 3.4 miles | 24 | |
| Steiner Ranch | 4.0 miles | 24 | |
| Jonestown | 4.4 miles | 24 | |
| Buffalo Gap | 4.5 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 Volente | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q285394 | 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 1370679. 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.