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Wyldwood, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cedar Creek-Red Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78612. It lies near Caldwell Knob. The Survey maps it on the Utley quadrangle. 3,694 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 512 feet above sea level.

Wyldwood within Bastrop County

Population over time

3 figures

Wyldwood grew from 2,310 to 3,694 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
20002,310
20102,505+195 (+8%)
20203,694+1,189 (+47%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

320 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 320 fires within 5 miles of Wyldwood between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,505 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning240
Missing data/not specified/undetermined45
Equipment and vehicle use16
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
9 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMARTIN LN
9 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service362 OLD 71
8 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTUCK ST
7 September 1992Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined719 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNION CHAPEL
5 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2009Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service310 WILBARGER BEND RD
30 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePOPE BEND RD S

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bastrop County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wyldwood: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Berdoll Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bastrop 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
Cedar Creek3.3 miles17
Elysium3.4 miles18
Utley4.5 miles17
Shiloh (historical)5.4 miles15
Phelan8.0 miles16
Bastrop8.4 miles17
Clearview9.4 miles17
Rockne9.5 miles11

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 WyldwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969921The 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 1867576. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.