Briaroaks, Texas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Burleson-Joshua census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76028. The Survey maps it on the Burleson quadrangle. 507 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 738 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBriaroaks grew from 492 to 507 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 492 | |
| 2020 | 507 | +15 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Burleson quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Fort Worth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
37 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Briaroaks between 2005 and 2020, burning about 180 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 9 July 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 09-000289 |
| 4 July 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 31 July 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BURLESON RETTA |
| 3 July 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 09-000264 |
| 23 July 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 21 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 1020 |
| 12 July 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cross Timber | 2.3 miles | 14 | |
| Wooded Hills | 2.4 miles | 14 | |
| Burleson | 2.8 miles | 14 | |
| Marystown | 3.1 miles | 16 | |
| Egan | 3.5 miles | 16 | |
| Keeler | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Happy Hill | 4.3 miles | 16 | |
| Joshua | 5.3 miles | 16 |
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 Briaroaks | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981963 | 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 1388549. 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.




