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More historic than 14% of U.S. towns · #414 of 642 in Texas. What drives it
Most of Brushy Creek was built recently: 0.1% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1995. Below: maps from 1982 on and the census since 1990.
The Brushy Creek post office opened in 1851, the earliest record of the town by name.
More historic than 14% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Brushy Creek is more historic than 14% of U.S. towns, #414 of 642 in Texas. Its age holds the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
Few Texas towns list much on the Register (a typical Texas town has 0.0 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Brushy Creek’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (34% of Texas towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Brushy Creek’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Brushy Creek yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Brushy Creek is a census-designated place (CDP) in Williamson County, Texas, United States. The population was 22,519 at the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 1851. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 21,764 to 22,519 (+3%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Brushy Creek, cut from the printed page as they were published.
the county In 1848 the year of its organization. The few settlers located near the streams convenient to wood and water. It was less than ten years before the county was organized that Dr. Kenney iu 1839 built a fort and stockade on the south side of Brushy Creek, near Palm Valley, which is generally accepted as the first permanent settlement of Williamson County.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Brushy Creek.
1982Round Rock sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Brushy Creek.
Grew from 5,833 people in 1990 to 22,519 in 2020, 3 times over.
4 censuses, 1990–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Brushy Creek’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Brushy Creek itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Brushy Creek had its own post office from 1851 to 1854.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Brushy Creek post office opened in 1851, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Brushy Creek is more historic than 14% of U.S. towns, #414 of 642 in Texas. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
0.1% of Brushy Creek’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate), against a typical 1.6% for a Texas town; the median home was built in 1995.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.