Sherwood Shores, Burnet County, Texas
Unincorporated community
Sherwood Shores is located in Texas
Sherwood Shores
Sherwood Shores
Sherwood Shores is located in the United States
Sherwood Shores
Sherwood Shores
Coordinates: 30°35′37″N 98°21′32″W / 30.59361°N 98.35889°W / 30.59361; -98.35889
CountryUnited States
StateTexas
CountyBurnet
Elevation
856 ft (261 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)512 & 737
GNIS feature ID1377753[1]

Sherwood Shores is an unincorporated community in Burnet County, Texas, United States.[1] According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 870 in 2000.

History

The area in what is known as Sherwood Shores today was first settled around the early 1960s when a Baptist church was chartered. It had two locations on the 1970s county highway map. At the same time, there was an Assembly of God church and a Seventh-day Adventist church. Its population was 870 in 2000 for both communities.[2]

Geography

Sherwood Shores is located in the Highland Lakes region in western Burnet County, 14 mi (23 km) southwest of Burnet on Lake Lyndon B. Johnson.[2]

Education

Sherwood Shores is served by the Marble Falls Independent School District. Elementary-age kids attend Highland Lakes Elementary in Granite Shoals.

References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Sherwood Shores, Burnet County, Texas
  2. 1 2 Jasinski, Laurie E. (December 9, 2005). "Sherwood Shores, TX (Burnet County)". tshaonline.org.
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