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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.

Briaroaks within Johnson County

Population over time

2 figures

Briaroaks 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.

YearPeople Change
2010492
2020507+15 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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

37 since 2005

Regional 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning14
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 August 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service09-000289
4 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
31 July 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBURLESON RETTA
3 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service09-000264
23 July 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1020
12 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson 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
Cross Timber2.3 miles14
Wooded Hills2.4 miles14
Burleson2.8 miles14
Marystown3.1 miles16
Egan3.5 miles16
Keeler4.1 miles14
Happy Hill4.3 miles16
Joshua5.3 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 BriaroaksAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981963The 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.