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Brookhaven, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Fort Cavazos census division. It stands on Oak Branch. The Survey maps it on the Post Oak Mountain quadrangle.

Brookhaven within Bell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

31 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Brookhaven between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,517 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
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 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceON CEDARHILL CIR AT CEDARHILL DR
13 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use300 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4303 PRAIRIE DR
4 July 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2308 JEROME DR.
28 July 2009Debris and open burning500 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFORT HOOD/EAST RANGE ROAD -3
24 July 2005Equipment and vehicle use700 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTRAL TX - 17
16 July 2009Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBLORA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bell County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brookhaven in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 flash flood. 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
May 2011Flash FloodBrookhaven$25,000Fort Hood officials closed roads on base due to flood waters flowing over base roadways. Some of these locations were Tank Destroyer Blvd, West Range Road at Turkey Run Creek, House Creek, 37th Street at South Range Road, 68th St at Battalion Avenue and part of West Range Road. Also on the base, four homes in Comanche II housing experienced minor flooding.

Every storm recorded in Bell 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
Curry Crossing1.7 miles17
Union Hill4.3 miles19
Walker Village6.0 miles17
Bland6.3 miles19
Lone Star6.6 miles18
Jubilee Springs6.7 miles16
Owl Creek6.9 miles19
Harker Heights6.9 miles18

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 BrookhavenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q114397368The 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 1379459. 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.