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Brazos Country, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Sealy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77474. The Survey maps it on the San Felipe quadrangle. 514 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Brazos Country within Austin County

Population over time

2 figures

Brazos Country grew from 469 to 514 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010469
2020514+45 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

8 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Brazos Country between 2009 and 2020, burning about 27 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
17 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
27 March 2018Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
9 February 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMA GRASS FIRE -W- SFFVFD
13 November 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE I 10 712
8 October 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
23 October 2016Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePINDULA
22 October 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
12 January 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service09-0000011

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Austin County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Brazos Country: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jones G Finke Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed Dredge OperationSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Austin 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
Frydek2.0 miles13
South Frydek2.1 miles11
San Felipe3.8 miles13
Sealy6.0 miles11
Macedonia8.3 miles11
Wallis8.5 miles11
Rexville8.8 miles10
Peters10.3 miles11

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 Brazos CountryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q973264The 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 1923026. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.