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Brookston, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Howland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75421. The Survey maps it on the Roxton quadrangle. 91 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 591 feet above sea level.

Brookston within Lamar County

On record in Brookston

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

39 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Brookston between 2006 and 2018, burning about 704 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning24
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
23 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHED FIRE MAXEY
2 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLAMAR 22:08
5 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use99 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 553
3 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 361
3 August 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE/STRUCTURE-BROOKSTON
27 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use17 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6267
20 August 2016Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service160820
23 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar County

Storms near this place

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brookston in 11 storm reports between 1993 and 2004: 6 hail, 5 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
April 1995Thunderstorm WindBrookston$35,000A barn, two sheds, a satellite dish, part of a fence, and trees were destroyed by high winds.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindBrookston$15,000no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindBrookston$3,000Large trees and power lines were blown down in Brookston, and at Lamar Point on the southwest corner of Pat Mayse Lake.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindBrookston$500A telephone pole was blown onto a road by thunderstorm winds.
May 2004HailBrookston-no account filed
August 2003HailBrookston-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindBrookston-no account filed
October 2001HailBrookston-no account filed
June 1997HailBrookston-no account filed
September 1996HailBrookston-no account filed
July 1995HailBrookston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lamar 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
High2.6 miles11
Ambia3.0 miles11
Toco3.6 miles11
Roxton5.5 miles11
Atlas5.8 miles11
Petty6.0 miles12
Maxey6.2 miles12
Forest Hill6.6 miles12

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 BrookstonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4975130The 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 1352950. 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.