Buchanan Dam ( ) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Llano County, Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census, Buchanan Dam had a population of 1,508.
Geography
Buchanan Dam is located in northeastern Llano County on the west and south shores of Lake Buchanan, a reservoir on the Colorado River. The CDP also occupies the south and west shores of Inks Lake, on the Colorado directly downstream from Lake Buchanan. It extends north along Lake Buchanan as far as Bluffton.
Texas State Highway 29 passes through the southern part of the CDP, crossing the Colorado River just south of the Buchanan Dam. Highway 29 leads east to Burnet and west to Llano. State Highway 261 leads north from Highway 29 up the west side of Lake Buchanan to Bluffton.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the Buchanan Dam CDP has a total area of , of which are land and , or 61.70%, are water.
Demographics
Buchanan Dam first appeared as a census-designated place in the 1990 U.S. census.
!Pop 2010
!
!% 2000
!% 2010
!
|-
|White alone (NH)
|1,578
|1,401
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1,310
|93.48%
|92.23%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |86.87%
|-
|Black or African American alone (NH)
|6
|3
|style='background: #ffffe6; |4
|0.36%
|0.20%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.27%
|-
|Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH)
|1
|2
|style='background: #ffffe6; |4
|0.06%
|0.13%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.27%
|-
|Asian alone (NH)
|1
|6
|style='background: #ffffe6; |12
|0.06%
|0.39%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.80%
|-
|Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander alone (NH)
|0
|3
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0
|0.00%
|0.20%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.00%
|-
|Other race alone (NH)
|0
|0
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1
|0.00%
|0.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.07%
|-
|Mixed race or Multiracial (NH)
|12
|9
|style='background: #ffffe6; |64
|0.71%
|0.59%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |4.24%
|-
|Hispanic or Latino (any race)
|90
|95
|style='background: #ffffe6; |113
|5.33%
|6.25%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |7.49%
|-
|Total
|1,688
|1,519
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1,508
|100.00%
|100.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |100.00%
|}
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 1,508 people, 642 households, and 451 families residing in the CDP.
2000 census
As of the census