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Woodcreek, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Dripping Springs-Wimberley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78676. It lies near Little Twin Sister Peaks. The Survey maps it on the Driftwood quadrangle. 1,770 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 961 feet above sea level.

Woodcreek within Hays County

Population over time

2 figures

Woodcreek grew from 1,457 to 1,770 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,457
20201,770+313 (+21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

97 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Woodcreek between 2004 and 2020, burning about 1,090 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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 burning46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism1
Other causes1
Natural1

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
24 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceJACOBS WELL
24 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2004Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use31 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 249
6 August 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
31 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hays 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
Wimberley2.2 miles12
Pioneer Town2.9 miles12
Cloptins Crossing3.3 miles12
Pleasant Valley Crossing5.1 miles15
Hays City6.6 miles18
Driftwood7.8 miles15
Mount Gainor8.1 miles16
Dripping Springs11.2 miles15

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 WoodcreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q924262The 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 1388553. 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.