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Browndell, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Jasper census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75931. The Survey maps it on the Harrisburg quadrangle. 160 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 253 feet above sea level.

Browndell within Jasper County

Population over time

3 figures

Browndell fell from 219 to 160 between 2000 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.

YearPeople Change
2000219
2010197-22 (-10%)
2020160-37 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

342 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 342 fires within 5 miles of Browndell between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,011 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 47 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 burning185
Arson/incendiarism47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Power generation/transmission/distribution22
Natural20
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 9100
8 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2005Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 198
4 September 2000Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 614
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism35 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 669
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism35 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 609
30 September 1993Arson/incendiarism20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Browndell: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jasper 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
Horton2.7 miles9
Sam Rayburn5.0 miles13
Collins7.5 miles9
Harrisburg7.7 miles9
New Blox8.8 miles9
Blox9.3 miles9
Harveytown10.0 miles13
Westwood10.5 miles13

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 BrowndellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q975125The 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 1379462. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.