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Bronte, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Bronte census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76933. It stands on Middle Kickapoo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bronte quadrangle. 933 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,795 feet above sea level.

Bronte within Coke County

Population over time

2 figures

Bronte fell from 999 to 933 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
2010999
2020933-66 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

21 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Bronte between 2006 and 2020, burning about 410 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined6
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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
29 September 2011Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLIGHNING FIRE
22 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service300 COALSON
16 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWINTERS HWY
13 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM2662/US277
13 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 277. S.
26 August 2006Natural50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2006Natural20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 July 2012Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWINTERS HWY 384

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coke County

Storms near this place

52 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bronte in 52 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 37 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
July 1995Thunderstorm WindBronte2 hurt, $10,000no account filed
June 2007HailBronte$12,000Large hail damaged homes and vehicles.
March 2004Thunderstorm WindBronte$10,000Several roofs had damage and trees were knocked down all over town. The metal roof of a gas station shed was lifted and thrown several yards into a house to the east of the gas station.
May 2005HailBronte$8,000Vehicle damage due to hail.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindBronte$5,000Several outbuildings were damaged by high winds.
May 1993HailBronte$50no account filed
May 2024HailBronte-Public reported quarter size hail.
May 2024HailBronte-Public reported baseball size hail 3.5 miles south of Bronte.
May 2024HailBronte-Public reported 2 inch size hail. The time was estimated by radar.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindBronte-Public reported small tree limbs broken and shingles blown off.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindBronte-Strong thunderstorm winds damaged a Stripes Convenience Store sign.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindBronte-A Stripes store clerk reported a wind gust of 60 mph.
April 2016HailBronte-The fire department reported ping pong ball size hail about 4 miles north of Bronte.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindBronte-The fire department reported trees down in Bronte.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindBronte-A wind gust of 60 mph was reported.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindBronte-Power lines were blown down just north of Bronte.
May 2007HailBronte-A Game Warden reported golf ball size hail.
May 2007Flash FloodBronte-Heavy rains caused a creek to overflow it's banks along Highway 158 just to the east of Bronte. One foot of water covered 158.
May 1998Flash FloodBronte-Highway 277 in Bronte was flooded
March 2023HailBronte-no account filed
April 2021HailBronte-no account filed
May 2021HailBronte-no account filed
April 2015HailBronte-no account filed
April 2015HailBronte-no account filed
October 2014HailBronte-no account filed
October 2014HailBronte-no account filed
October 2014HailBronte-no account filed
May 2014HailBronte-no account filed
May 2013HailBronte-no account filed
April 2012HailBronte-no account filed
April 2007HailBronte-no account filed
April 2007HailBronte-no account filed
April 2007HailBronte-no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindBronte-no account filed
April 2006HailBronte-no account filed
May 2006HailBronte-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindBronte-no account filed
May 2005HailBronte-no account filed
May 2005HailBronte-no account filed
May 2005HailBronte-no account filed
April 2004HailBronte-no account filed
April 2003HailBronte-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindBronte-no account filed
June 2003HailBronte-no account filed
May 2002HailBronte-no account filed
May 1999HailBronte-no account filed
May 1999HailBronte-no account filed
April 1999HailBronte-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindBronte-no account filed
May 1997HailBronte-no account filed
May 1996HailBronte-no account filed
April 1996HailBronte-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coke 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
Shawville2.6 miles15
Fort Chadbourne7.8 miles13
Tennyson10.0 miles15
Robert Lee10.2 miles14
Sanco14.9 miles9
Pecan Mott15.5 miles15
Edith16.9 miles8
Silver24.3 miles10

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 BronteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q979299The 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 1372729. 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.