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Brand, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Fluvanna-Ira census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79549. The Survey maps it on the Brand quadrangle.

Brand within Scurry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

139 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Brand between 2006 and 2018, burning about 2,780 acres in total. 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined51
Equipment and vehicle use29
Power generation/transmission/distribution28
Debris and open burning18
Natural9
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
6 September 2009Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceS C GOLF COURSE
4 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 208 AND KELLER AVENUE
12 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 253
11 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCURRY COUNTY GOLF COURSE
8 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTEXAS AVE
7 August 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1312 N. AVE. R
31 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service3792 FM 1611
3 August 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHURCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scurry County

Storms near this place

6 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brand in 6 storm reports between 2021 and 2025: 3 hail, 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindBrand$20,000Snyder FD reported a broken power pole and flattened hay in a field near FM 1611 north of Snyder. This was likely the result of a microburst. The time of occurrence is estimated by radar. The wind speed is estimated by the extent of the damage reported, and the cost of the damage is also estimated.
October 2023Thunderstorm WindBrand$15,000Nine power poles were reported down at the intersection of Highway 85 and County Road 258. Wind speeds were estimated to be 100 mph. Time was estimated from radar. Property cost damage is an estimation.
May 2021HailBrand$500A thunderstorm produced two inch hail near Snyder. There was a report of a broken car windshield due to hail. The cost of damage is a very rough estimate.
April 2024HailBrand-This report was received via mPING.
September 2024Flash FloodBrand-Flooding across US Highway 84 just north of Snyder.
April 2023HailBrand-Hail was observed near US84 and CR258.

Every storm recorded in Scurry 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
Union4.8 miles10
Dermott5.2 miles9
Snyder5.6 miles10
Franklin Center5.7 miles9
Arah9.5 miles8
Fullerville10.7 miles8
Fluvanna11.9 miles8
Knapp13.0 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1331193. 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.