Brandon, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hillsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76666. The Survey maps it on the Mertens quadrangle. It stands 627 feet above sea level.

Brandon within Hill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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 Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Mertens quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Corsicana quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

108 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Brandon between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,020 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 burning	49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Arson/incendiarism	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2
Natural	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
9 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 308 HAY BALER FIRE
9 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	S. BERRY ST BURN BAN
9 September 2012	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HOCKER GRASS
3 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CLARK FIRE
3 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CLARK#2
27 September 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1946 FIRE
25 September 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	3134 NORTH FIRE
2 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 1946 COTTON FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hill County

Storms near this place

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brandon in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
October 2018	Tornado (EF0)	Brandon	$5,000	A storm chaser/spotter observed a tornado near FM 1243 north-\|northeast of Bynum. The tornado was partially obscured by rain. No\|damage could be found or accessed by a storm survey team and local\|officials, but some tree damage was reported very near the assumed \|track.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandon	$3,000	Multiple trees were reported down on Hwy 22 near Brandon.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandon	-	A trained spotter reported multiple trees down.
October 2015	Flood	Brandon	-	Significant flooding continued across Hill County after 7-20 inches of rain fell across the county. Most of the main roads remained open but county roads experienced flooding after many creeks and streams overflowed their banks. The highest rainfall totals and also the greatest flooding impacts were in the southeastern portions of the county around Hubbard and Malone.
May 2015	Tornado (EF0)	Brandon	-	Trained spotters observed and recorded a multiple vortex tornado northeast of Brandon. While large, the tornado produced no visible damage, except to farm fields. However, the combination of a large tornado which moved slowly, produced quite a bit of damage to the fields.
October 1998	Tornado (F0)	Brandon	-	A narrow, short lived tornado touched down. No damage was reported.
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandon	-	Trees were blown down by high winds.

Every storm recorded in Hill 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
Lakenon	3.4 miles	15
Mertens	3.5 miles	8
Midway	3.9 miles	15
Bynum	5.6 miles	14
Irene	6.0 miles	8
Carls Corner	6.2 miles	15
Mountain View	7.7 miles	15
Hillsboro	9.3 miles	15

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 Brandon	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4956736	The 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 1378045. 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.