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Bradshaw, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Jim Ned census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79567. The Survey maps it on the Bradshaw quadrangle.

Bradshaw within Taylor County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

43 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Bradshaw between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,001 acres in total. 7 started naturally. None 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking3

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
9 September 2009Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE - 8000 BLK OF HWY 83
22 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE - CR 176
2 September 2017Natural3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVIRGIL GRAHAM'S BARN
19 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRADSHAW FIRE
14 September 2011Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE - FM 604
8 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 620
5 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTRAIN'S HAYFIELD
14 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE - 8173 US 83

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor County

Storms near this place

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bradshaw in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 7 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
June 1997Thunderstorm WindBradshaw$100,000no account filed
March 2004Tornado (F0)Bradshaw$10,000A brief tornado touchdown in the community of Bradshaw.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindBradshaw$5,000Large tree limbs were blown down.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBradshaw-Law enforcement reported a power pole was blown over. The time was estimated by radar.
April 2023HailBradshaw-A trained spotter reported tennis ball size hail 1.5 miles north of Bradshaw.
April 2023HailBradshaw-There was major hail damage to the roof and windows of a residence. Also, severe hail damage to motor vehicles including windshield and windows busted out, and external mirrors busted out with broken mirror housings. The time was estimated by radar.
April 2006HailBradshaw-no account filed
April 2006HailBradshaw-no account filed
April 2003Thunderstorm WindBradshaw-no account filed
March 1999HailBradshaw-no account filed
June 1997HailBradshaw-no account filed
May 1994HailBradshaw-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Taylor 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
Guion2.7 miles12
Ovalo7.0 miles12
Lawn8.2 miles13
Tuscola9.4 miles12
Happy Valley11.4 miles13
Shep12.4 miles13
Rogers12.4 miles13
Buffalo Gap13.0 miles15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BradshawAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22073180The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378044. 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.