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Broome, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Sterling City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76951. It lies near China Draw. The Survey maps it on the Broome quadrangle. It stands 2,211 feet above sea level.

Broome within Sterling County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

12 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Broome between 2006 and 2011, burning about 1,099 acres in total. 2 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
Natural2
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
21 September 2011Natural17 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBODE FIRE
3 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 June 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 April 2008Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 February 2009Smoking10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFRIZZELL FIRE
23 February 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 February 2008Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Sterling County

Storms near this place

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Broome in 9 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 8 hail, 1 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
May 2025HailBroome-Public reported quarter size hail.
April 2025HailBroome-Public reported golf ball size hail. In addition, 4 inches of rain was reported as well as high winds.
April 2025HailBroome-Public reported quarter size hail.
April 2025HailBroome-Public reported quarter size hail.
April 2025HailBroome-Public reported very large hail (larger than baseball) damaging cars and trees.
October 2014HailBroome-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindBroome-no account filed
April 2003HailBroome-no account filed
May 1999HailBroome-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sterling 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
Sterling City9.4 miles7
Iolanthe (historical)22.2 miles8

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 BroomeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4975269The 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 1378052. 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.