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From a brief google search and some speculation, I think there was a massive flood that destroyed the neighborhood. Very few folks bothered to rebuild afterwards. Edit: this is a common flood area. That prompted the Austin City Counsel to buyout all of these homes to demolish them. A major flood would have put hundreds of families into homelessness.

Oh. Sad. Although abandoned houses on the streets look like they have zero damage

Yep, I don’t think the flood damaged most of the homes, but Austin decided to buy out a huge amount of homes just in case of a larger future flood

What a small and simple but nice story

I'm not sure how accurate that is. If you look at satellite view there is only one short section that is like that. There are houses right by there and that section seems to have been absorbed by the park.

Here’s a link to the website about the buyout. https://www.austintexas.gov/department/onion-creek-flood-risk-reduction Not sure how many homes actually flooded in 2013, but it temporarily displaced hundreds, per news reports. People did return to the neighborhood after the flood (I was initially wrong on this point), but they soon were bought out within a couple years

I think Firefly drive was specifically bought out much before the rest of the neighborhood, leading to it’s elimination.

Super common all.over the US. Chiming in from Flooded illinois, where we have missing homes from buy backs.

I guess Texas has not reached the palafitte technology era yet.

I could milk this same format at least 20 times. So many parts changed. What was a seemingly normal neighborhood was a barren field just years later.

Whole neighborhood got demolished except for a couple houses. Guess they just gave up on the roads without any houses anymore. Earth view looks so weird.

is this near the hiking trails? I think Ive been to this exact spot.

Onion Creek

I used to live on Glowworm Circle up the street, not far from the homes was a Onion Creek and when it would flood the houses would get flooded. The city bought out most of the houses from the people but some didn’t wanna leave and with out the houses there to stop the water a lot of the houses were covered on water and people had to get airlifted out off their roofs

Place looks creepy AF on Google earth. There are a few house that look Occupied surrounded by empty lots and overgrowth

Really? Where? I could only find one abandoned house. If you're on earth view, they aren't abandoned, they're fully demolished. I've seen a ton of address numbers, just for nothing there. Weird!

I used Google maps and found a few houses with cars out front and trash barrels waiting for pick up.

Mhm

They might have thought the above one was after

It's not overgrown, though.

I live nearby, I’ll have to check it out! No clue how I’ve never heard anything about it? I love abandoned places, especially when they’re in my hometown

It also has a diy skate park nearby. You live in Austin?

I brought it up on google maps, it looks pretty interesting! Yep I live in Austin

Nice! South Austin?

I’ll send you a pm

Neature has a way

Pretty neat

There was a documentary years ago I saw about how nature can reclaim cities and abandoned areas it was fascinating how quickly mother nature moves

Life After People on the History channel. It was definitely one of my favorites

Thats what it was! Thank you - I'd like to find it and watch it again.

Like 3 months into covid. It was wild seeing zombie esq properties. That were once perfectly groomed months before.

They actually came by and built a curb up in front of the old road?

I noticed that too. Looks like this is not in the same place

Been here quite a few times, it is a damn shame only a couple of the abandoned houses still stand. Although I'm pretty sure the one that's by itself (with the graff on the front) is being renovated or something. I've seen a truck there a couple times.

It’s a shame that whole area is just gone

Next on "Abandoned: EXTREME Edition"

Ha!

So google maps shows lots of dropped sections of kerb as you go down this road. Is this where each house/driveway used to be? Now all trees?

They cancelled Firefly for a new season.

😇

This is so sad

Totally

I thought there was a fire.

Those actually born and raised in Austin must hate what it's become, I know I would. Transplants ruin everywhere

Confidently incorrect

Predictable Get off reddit and go smell the real world

I’m outside right now

Nah you're not, you're in your mom's basement playing cod

Projecting

I’m a transplant and I hate what its become.

Crosspost this to r/projectzomboid, that game involves the wild recovering roads and buildings if you make it long enough, they'd like this.

I lived in Austin 2011-2021 and I remember going to the trails here in 2018. They still had sporadic houses sprinkled about and I thought it was so weird. Just about all those houses I saw are now gone on Google street view. Absolutely wild, thanks for the share!

One road I lived on years ago I went on google earth it’s completely gone. It’s a flood prone area and I think a massive flood just decimated it again. We survived one flood it went into our neighbors houses and if it had continued raining we’d have to be evacuated by boat. We left almost 10 years ago. Thankfully we live in the mountains now so risk of flooding is low!

That’s actually crazy, a whole street gone

This is kind of lovely. It’s like we’re seeing what it looked like before it was developed.

Yep, but backwards