Bransford, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Northeast Tarrant census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76034. It lies near Mount Donwell. The Survey maps it on the Colleyville quadrangle. It stands 679 feet above sea level.

Bransford within Tarrant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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.

1894 USGS Fort Worth quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1931 USGS Grapevine quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Colleyville quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1959 USGS Grapevine quadrangle1:62500
1985 USGS Fort Worth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

14 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Bransford between 2006 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. None 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/undetermined	10
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
3 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY114 EB
29 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	EAST SOUTHLAKE BLVD
19 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LONGFORD CIR
3 February 2008	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
2 February 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
2 February 2008	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
1 February 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
21 October 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CHISOLM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tarrant 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
Colleyville	1.5 miles	18
Old Union	2.8 miles	18
Smithfield	3.2 miles	20
Southlake	3.4 miles	18
Bedford	4.1 miles	20
Keller	5.0 miles	16
Hurst	5.3 miles	20
Grapevine	5.3 miles	18

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 Bransford	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076423	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 1378047. 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.