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Bronson, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Pineland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75930. It stands on Steep Mile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bronson quadrangle. It stands 318 feet above sea level.

Bronson within Sabine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

139 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Bronson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,982 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 21 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 burning67
Arson/incendiarism21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking5
Fireworks2

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 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution6.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 867
6 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 691
4 September 1995Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use4.6 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7096
30 September 2006Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 327
30 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2004Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 148
28 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sabine County

Storms near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bronson in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 3 hail, 3 flash flood, 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
January 2022Flash FloodBronson-Centerview Road between Bronson and Pineland was closed due to high water. FM 2866 near Bear Creek was also flooded and closed due to high water.
April 2020HailBronson-Quarter size hail fell in Bronson.
July 2012Flash FloodBronson-High water was reported over Hwy. 96 in Sabine County, Texas near Bronson.
December 2009Flash FloodBronson-Water was reported to be knee deep on FM 2856 near the town of Bronson, Texas.
March 1999HailBronson-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBronson-no account filed
May 1997HailBronson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sabine 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
Strickland Crossing4.1 miles11
Magasco4.8 miles11
Rosevine5.6 miles10
Pineland6.9 miles10
Hemphill8.8 miles11
McElroy10.0 miles10
Geneva10.5 miles10
Milam10.8 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 BronsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4974036The 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 1381518. 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.