| Brushy Creek, Texas is a small census designated | | | | community buildings, some of which are still there, and |
| place in Williamson County Texas, outside the Austin | | | | are designated as Texas historical landmarks. Most |
| area. It has gone through some small periods of | | | | notable were the combination one room school house |
| growth, but typically has followed them up with relative | | | | and church, and the Olive Branch Cemetery. The |
| periods of decline in population. As of the most recent | | | | cemetery can still be visited and grave stones dating |
| census, Brushy Creek as a town itself had only 50 | | | | back to 1856 can still be seen. |
| residents, although the surrounding countryside that | | | | As the surrounding areas began to be settled, Brushy |
| makes up the census designated place is comprised | | | | Creek began to lose some of its residents to the |
| of over 15,000 people. | | | | neighboring communities. This was a trend that |
| Brushy Creek was initially settled in the early 1840s. No | | | | continued all the way until the 1940s. New residents |
| one knows for sure the names of the initial settlers, but | | | | would arrive, but at the same time more would leave. |
| it is known that this group of settlers immigrated to the | | | | For a small time in the 1940s, this changed. The cause |
| area in a wagon train from South Carolina. The area | | | | of this change was the discovery of oil throughout the |
| they came from, coincidentally, was Brushy Creek | | | | area. For the next 20 years, as wells were placed and |
| South Carolina, and this accounts for the fact that not | | | | the oil was pumped, the population of the actual town |
| only the town, but most of the surrounding streams | | | | increased to over 300 residents for the first time in |
| are named Brushy Creek. | | | | over 50 years. However as the oil wells dried up in the |
| By 1858, the community had grown to a size of | | | | late 60s, the population began to decline again. |
| approximately 300 people, and started building some | | | | |