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Brad, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Strawn-Gordon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76475. It stands on Brad Branch. The Survey maps it on the Brad quadrangle.

Brad within Palo Pinto County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

56 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Brad between 2003 and 2020, burning about 8,809 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning25
Natural16
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHELL'S BALES
8 August 2010Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGUEST RANCH 3
7 August 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGUEST RANCH 2
30 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution6,555 acresTexas A & M Forest Service101 RANCH FIRE
3 August 2010Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGUEST #1
3 August 2008Natural617 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHARPEYE
21 August 2006Smoking5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 August 2012Natural40 acresTexas A & M Forest Service101 RANCH #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Palo Pinto County

Storms near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brad in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2015: 5 hail, 3 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2008HailBrad$5,000Golfball-size hail was reported on Highway 16.
May 2015Tornado (EF0)Brad-Amateur radio operators observed a tornado near the community of Brad. The tornado was brief, only producing damage for approximately two minutes over ranch land.
May 2015Tornado (EF0)Brad-Amateur radio operators observed a tornado to the west of the city of Mineral Wells, or just north of Brad. This was the first of two tornadoes in the Mineral Wells vicinity on the 19th. This tornado produced tree damage over open land.
May 2009HailBrad-A spotter reported penny size hail in Brad.
April 2008Tornado (EF0)Brad-Spotters reported a brief tornado south of Possum Kingdom Lake. No damage was reported.
October 1994HailBrad-Large tree limbs and a power line was blown down.
April 2007HailBrad-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindBrad-no account filed
May 1998HailBrad-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Palo Pinto County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Metcalf Gap4.6 miles16
Palo Pinto11.1 miles18
Lone Camp13.6 miles16
Lyra13.7 miles16
Strawn13.8 miles16
Coalville15.3 miles16
Mingus15.4 miles16
Gordon15.8 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378043. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.