Burnet, Texas Burnet, Texas City Hall in Burnet City Hall in Burnet Location of Burnet inside Burnet County, Texas Location of Burnet inside Burnet County, Texas Burnet County Burnet.svg County Burnet Burnet (/ b rn t/ bur-nit) is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Burnet County, Texas, United States. The populace was 5,987 at the 2010 census. Both the town/city and the county were titled for David Gouverneur Burnet, the first (provisional) president of the Republic of Texas.
Burnet is positioned one mile west of the divide between the Brazos and Colorado River watersheds near the center of Burnet County.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Burnet has a total region of 10.2 square miles (26.3 km2), of which 10.1 square miles (26.2 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km2), or 0.32%, is water. A town was established next to Fort Croghan in 1852, when Burnet County was established.
In August 1852 a postal service was established in Hamilton and titled Burnet Courthouse.
In 1857 thirty-five inhabitants of the town petitioned the state council to change the name of the town to Burnet since there was another town in Texas titled Hamilton.
The City of Burnet was incorporated in 1933. Major employers in Burnet include the Burnet Consolidated Independent School District (285 employees), Burnet County government (140), Seton Highland Lakes Hospital (120), Texas Dept.
Of Criminal Justice substance abuse facility (120), City of Burnet government (120), A.T.M.I.
Burnet is served by Burnet Consolidated Independent School District and home to the Burnet High School Bulldogs.
Located outside of Burnet is a summer camp called Camp Longhorn that has two chapters (Inks Lake and Indian Springs).
Highway 281 a north-south route connecting Burnet with the suburbs of Lampasas (22 mi north) and Marble Falls (13 mi south).
Texas 29.svg State Highway 29 an east-west route connecting Burnet with Llano (30 mi west) and Georgetown (36 mi east).
Burnet Municipal Airport, also known as Kate Craddock Field (ICAO Code KBMQ), is a general aviation airport positioned approximately one mile south of State Highway 29 on U.S.
Attractions in the Burnet region include the Highland Lakes, Longhorn Cavern, Inks Lake State Park, the Historic Burnet Square, the Highland Lakes Air Museum, Fort Croghan Museum and Grounds, the Vanishing Texas River Cruise, Hamilton Creek Park, Galloway Hammond Recreation Center, Delaware Springs Golf Course, and the Austin Steam Train Association's Hill Country Flyer.
Famous inhabitants of Burnet include Doak Field, a experienced American football player.
Louis Cardinals of the NFL. Other football players from Burnet High School include quarterback Stephen Mc - Gee of Texas A&M University and the Dallas Cowboys, and wide receiver Jordan Shipley of The University of Texas at Austin and the Cincinnati Bengals. Vandeveer was a prestige in presenting the petition to the council in 1852 to establish Burnet County and was instrumental in having the town of Burnet titled the county seat. Clock at Burnet County Courthouse First State Bank of Burnet According to the Koppen climate classification system, Burnet has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Burnet city, Texas".
"The Handbook of Texas Online BURNET, Texas", https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hgb13.
Burnet Chamber of Commerce, https://burnetchamber.org/6667907_65735.htm.
"Air - Nav: KBMQ - Burnet Municipal Airport-Kate Craddock Field".
"Burnet, Texas Koppen Climate Classification (Weatherbase)".
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