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.
Population over time
2 figuresBronte 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 999 | |
| 2020 | 933 | -66 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 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.
- 1891 USGS Hayrick quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Hayrick quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1921 USGS Bronte quadrangle1:31680
- 1954 USGS San Angelo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS San Angelo quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Bronte quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS San Angelo quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Robert Lee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
21 since 2006Regional 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2011 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LIGHNING FIRE |
| 22 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 300 COALSON |
| 16 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WINTERS HWY |
| 13 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM2662/US277 |
| 13 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 277. S. |
| 26 August 2006 | Natural | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 26 August 2006 | Natural | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 25 July 2012 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WINTERS HWY 384 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
52 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronte | 2 hurt, $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Bronte | $12,000 | Large hail damaged homes and vehicles. |
| March 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronte | $10,000 | Several 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 2005 | Hail | Bronte | $8,000 | Vehicle damage due to hail. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronte | $5,000 | Several outbuildings were damaged by high winds. |
| May 1993 | Hail | Bronte | $50 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Bronte | - | Public reported quarter size hail. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Bronte | - | Public reported baseball size hail 3.5 miles south of Bronte. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Bronte | - | Public reported 2 inch size hail. The time was estimated by radar. |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronte | - | Public reported small tree limbs broken and shingles blown off. |
| April 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronte | - | Strong thunderstorm winds damaged a Stripes Convenience Store sign. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronte | - | A Stripes store clerk reported a wind gust of 60 mph. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Bronte | - | The fire department reported ping pong ball size hail about 4 miles north of Bronte. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronte | - | The fire department reported trees down in Bronte. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronte | - | A wind gust of 60 mph was reported. |
| March 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronte | - | Power lines were blown down just north of Bronte. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Bronte | - | A Game Warden reported golf ball size hail. |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Bronte | - | 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 1998 | Flash Flood | Bronte | - | Highway 277 in Bronte was flooded |
| March 2023 | Hail | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| April 2021 | Hail | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| October 2014 | Hail | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| October 2014 | Hail | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| October 2014 | Hail | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Bronte | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Bronte | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shawville | 2.6 miles | 15 | |
| Fort Chadbourne | 7.8 miles | 13 | |
| Tennyson | 10.0 miles | 15 | |
| Robert Lee | 10.2 miles | 14 | |
| Sanco | 14.9 miles | 9 | |
| Pecan Mott | 15.5 miles | 15 | |
| Edith | 16.9 miles | 8 | |
| Silver | 24.3 miles | 10 |
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 Bronte | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q979299 | 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 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.







