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Bragg, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Saratoga-Batson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77625. The Survey maps it on the Bragg quadrangle.

Bragg within Hardin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

95 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Bragg between 1993 and 2018, burning about 4,762 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 33 were 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 burning34
Arson/incendiarism33
Natural14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use3

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 2011Natural1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 877
5 September 2013Natural3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9169
5 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 651
30 September 2011Natural16 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 953
30 September 2011Natural1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 958
29 September 1995Arson/incendiarism110 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined516 acresBig Thicket National ParkTFS 637

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bragg in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
January 2024Thunderstorm WindBragg-Severe thunderstorm wind gusts damaged power lines near Thicket.
April 2024Flash FloodBragg-Little Pine Island Bayou near Thicket overtopped its banks flooding nearby roadways.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindBragg-The Hardin County Sheriffs Department reported numerous trees down county wide.

Every storm recorded in Hardin 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
Thicket3.8 miles14
Lelavale4.4 miles13
Votaw5.9 miles14
Honey Island6.8 miles13
Dies9.2 miles13
Saratoga9.5 miles14
Wildwood9.7 miles13
Village Mills10.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379454. 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.