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Browning, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Tyler East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75792. The Survey maps it on the Starrville quadrangle. It stands 453 feet above sea level.

Browning within Smith County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

438 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 438 fires within 5 miles of Browning between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,334 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 34 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 burning281
Missing data/not specified/undetermined72
Arson/incendiarism34
Equipment and vehicle use18
Smoking13
Natural10
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 7129
9 September 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 7128
9 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service348
8 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use350 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJACKSON COMPLEX
8 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use111 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKERR MCGEE FIRE
8 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service342
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 209

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Smith County

Storms near this place

6 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Browning in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBrowning1 hurt, $10,000One person was injured after a tree fell on top of his pickup truck he was driving. The incident occurred on FM 2767 near Barber Road.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindBrowning-Trees downed at FM Road 757 and 2767 and in multiple places along FM Road 757 across Smith County.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBrowning-A tree fell on a transformer.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBrowning-Several large tree limbs were broken off of trees at the Azleway Boy's Ranch along County Road 26, one of which clipped the corner of a building at the Ranch.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBrowning-Several large hardwood trees were blown down near a home on County Road 26, all of which were lying in the same direction.
December 2018Thunderstorm WindBrowning-A tree fell onto a power line at the 11600 block of County Road 246 South.

Every storm recorded in Smith 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
Douglas2.4 miles16
Midway6.1 miles15
Starrville6.2 miles15
Owentown6.9 miles15
New Chapel Hill7.2 miles16
Chapel Hill7.6 miles16
Bascom8.2 miles16
Waters Bluff8.4 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 BrowningAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21197665The 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 1378055. 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.