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.
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
- State Highway 5 Bridge at High Creeklisted 1996
- State Highway Bridge 5 at Big Pine Creeklisted 1996
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 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.
- 1903 USGS Paris quadrangle1:125000
- 1948 USGS Paris quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Paris quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Roxton quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
39 since 2006Regional 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 burning | 24 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SHED FIRE MAXEY |
| 2 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LAMAR 22:08 |
| 5 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 99 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 553 |
| 3 August 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 361 |
| 3 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE/STRUCTURE-BROOKSTON |
| 27 August 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 17 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 6267 |
| 20 August 2016 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 160820 |
| 23 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MUTUAL AID |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookston | $35,000 | A barn, two sheds, a satellite dish, part of a fence, and trees were destroyed by high winds. |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookston | $15,000 | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookston | $3,000 | Large trees and power lines were blown down in Brookston, and at Lamar Point on the southwest corner of Pat Mayse Lake. |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookston | $500 | A telephone pole was blown onto a road by thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Brookston | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Brookston | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookston | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | Brookston | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Brookston | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Hail | Brookston | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Brookston | - | 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.
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 Brookston | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4975130 | 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 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.







