VOLENTE
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Volente is a community of more than 600 families living in the beautiful Central Texas Hill Country along the north shore of Lake Travis.
The center of the community, both geographically and culturally, is the Volente Fire Department at 15406 FM 2769.FM 2769, also known as Volente Road, is the single route through the Volente area. At one end, FM 2769 connects to FM 620, both directly and via Bullick Hollow Road. On the other end, FM 2769 connects to Lime Creek Road, which continues to FM 1431 (Jonestown Road).
Most of the area known as Volente is within Travis County. A portion of the community incorporated as the Village of Volente in 2003. Most of the remainder is within the ETJ (Extra-Territorial Jurisdiction) of the City of Austin, Texas. Volente is on Lake Travis and Farm Road 2769, eighteen miles northwest of Austin in northwestern Travis County. Its name. One is that an early resident suggested it from a book she was reading at the time. Another story, more colorful but less likely, suggests that the name was an Indian word meaning “God willing.”
Actually, volente is from the Latin word meaning “to be willing.” The post office was established at Volente in 1886 with Andrew J. Stanford as postmaster. The office was discontinued in 1909, and mail for the community was sent to Cedar Park in Williamson County. The area was partially submerged by Lake Travis in the 1930s, and residents had to relocate on higher ground. In the 1940s and early 1950s the community was called Dodd City, for a local realtor and restaurant owner, but later in the 1950s the name was changed back to Volente.The community population was estimated at 250 in 1959 and at 400 in 1989. In 1990 Volente had a church, a combination fire hall-community center, several businesses, and the Anderson Mill Museum.
