Branchville, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Burlington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76520. The Survey maps it on the Maysfield quadrangle.

Branchville within Milam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1962 USGS Maysfield quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

14 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Branchville between 2005 and 2013, burning about 705 acres in total. None 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 burning	9
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 August 2011	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	STROUD FIRE
2 July 2013	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DONALD JOHNSON FIRE
13 June 2009	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SKINNER 2
13 June 2009	Debris and open burning	150 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SKINNER
9 May 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	400 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WILLIE FIRE
4 May 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	COBB FARM
29 May 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PAGACH FIRE
27 May 2006	Smoking	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Milam County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Branchville in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Branchville	$10,000	Strong winds blew down trees and destroyed a barn.
April 2019	Tornado (EF1)	Branchville	-	The survey team determined that this tornado first formed just west of the Brazos River in extreme eastern Milam County, approximately 6 miles northwest of Hearne, Texas. The tornado traveled east-northeastward, crossing the Brazos River and moving into Robertson County shortly after developing.

Every storm recorded in Milam 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Port Sullivan (historical)	3.2 miles	8
Maysfield	4.7 miles	7
Crossroads	5.7 miles	7
Hanover	6.3 miles	7
Jones Prairie	6.6 miles	7
Nashville (historical)	7.1 miles	7
Gause	7.2 miles	7
Belmena	7.9 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379455. 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.