Sherwood Shores, Burnet County, Texas

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Sherwood Shores, Burnet County, Texas
Unincorporated community
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Sherwood Shores
Coordinates: 30°35′37″N98°21′32″W / 30.59361°N 98.35889°W / 30.59361; -98.35889
CountryUnited States
State Texas
County Burnet
Elevation
856 ft (261 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area codes 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.

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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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