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Brazos, Texas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Palo Pinto-Santo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76472. It stands on Buck Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brazos East quadrangle. 112 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 823 feet above sea level.

Brazos within Palo Pinto County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 20 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

207 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 207 fires within 5 miles of Brazos between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,869 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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 burning94
Equipment and vehicle use54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Arson/incendiarism5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMURRIN
9 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use100 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service129 FIRE
8 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1307 FM 129
7 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTILLMAN FIRE 16-195
6 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDOBBS VALLEY FIRE #1
5 September 2008Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2008Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Palo Pinto County

Storms near this place

21 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brazos in 21 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 4 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
August 2022Thunderstorm WindBrazos$25,000A social media report indicated that an 18 wheeler was rolled over at a truck stop, and that a nearby fireworks stand was blown over.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindBrazos$10,000A barn was blown down 2 miles west of Brazos on FM 129.
April 2011HailBrazos$10,000no account filed
April 2016Flash FloodBrazos$8,000Palo Pinto Sheriff's deputies reported flooding along and near U.S. 281 near Mineral Wells.
October 1993Thunderstorm WindBrazos$5,000Windows were broken by high winds. Trees were blown onto a house, and power lines were blown down.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindBrazos$2,000Cooperative Observer reported numerous large tree limbs down.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindBrazos$1,000A public report indicated tree and small shed damage, along with accumulating hail.
May 2011HailBrazos$1,000Golfball sized hail fell at the intersection of Highway 281 and Interstate 20 south of Mineral Wells.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindBrazos$1,000A large tree that was 8-9 in diameter was blown down on HWY 281 approximately 8 miles south of Mineral Wells.
July 2009Flash FloodBrazos$1,000Ponding of water on Interstate 20 and its service roads between FM 113 and HWY 281 was reported.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindBrazos$500Trees were reported down across Highway 281 north of Interstate 20.
May 2025HailBrazos-Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.).
April 2023HailBrazos-A social media report indicated ping pong ball sized hail on Highway 281 just north of Interstate 20.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBrazos-A public report indicated several 50 feet tall oak trees broken or uprooted near the city of Santo, TX.
November 2008Flash FloodBrazos-A low water crossing was flooded near the intersection of I-20 and Highway 281.
November 2008Thunderstorm WindBrazos-Large limbs were blown down.
August 2008Flash FloodBrazos-Flooding was reported between the towns of Brazos and Santo.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindBrazos-Large tree limbs blown down by high winds.
May 2024HailBrazos-no account filed
November 2008HailBrazos-no account filed
August 2003HailBrazos-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Palo Pinto 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
New Salem3.3 miles20
Santo6.4 miles21
Sturdivant7.7 miles18
Lone Camp7.9 miles16
Mineral Wells10.2 miles18
Wolters Village11.6 miles18
Palo Pinto11.9 miles18
Coalville12.6 miles16

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 BrazosAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4959008The 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 1331213. 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.