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Brashear, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Cumby census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75420. It stands on Webb Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brashear quadrangle.

Brashear within Hopkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

73 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Brashear between 2004 and 2017, burning about 478 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural1

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
8 September 2012Debris and open burning31 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN-6231
7 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRAY
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWALKER
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNKNOWN
30 September 2006Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 663
26 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1554 FM 2653 SOUTH
22 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2011Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMOONEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Storms near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brashear in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2016HailBrashear$7,000no account filed
April 2025HailBrashear-Law enforcement reported quarter size hail fell on CR 1157.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindBrashear-Emergency management reported downed power poles and a 20-inch diameter tree toppled near the intersection of CR 1100 and FM 3389 just west of the city of Sulphur Springs, TX.
March 2019HailBrashear-Hopkins County Sheriff's Department reported quarter size hail in the community of Brashear, TX.
March 1997HailBrashear-no account filed
April 1996HailBrashear-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hopkins 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
Overland2.6 miles8
Gafford3.8 miles8
Palestine4.5 miles9
Ridgeway4.7 miles9
Divide5.0 miles8
Rockdale5.1 miles8
Cumby5.8 miles9
Greenview6.7 miles8

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 BrashearAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14710355The 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 1331201. 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.