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Brownsboro, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lockhart census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78644. The Survey maps it on the McMahan quadrangle. It stands 449 feet above sea level.

Brownsboro within Caldwell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Brownsboro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,388 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Equipment and vehicle use27
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Natural3
Smoking1

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
8 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service9479 OLD COLONYLINE RD
5 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCATFISH LN
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBURDETT WELL
4 September 2000Natural125 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasCR 205
30 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCELL TOWER FIRE
3 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 101
28 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH LANE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caldwell County

Storms near this place

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brownsboro in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2021: 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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
March 2018Tornado (EF0)Brownsboro$10,000In the early morning hours, a cluster of storms moved east across portions of Caldwell County. Along the leading edge of the thunderstorms, an NWS survey concluded a small EF-0 (estimated peak wind, 80mph) tornado formed and produced some minor damage approximately seven miles northeast of Luling. Wind damage to some trees was found on CR 144 with some roof damage reported off of Wattsville Rd. A small tornado track was found that crossed Pasture Rd. and continued east just north of Wattsville Rd. ending just east of Tenney Creek Rd.
May 2021Flash FloodBrownsboro-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. FM 1322 was flooded by Plum Creek northeast of Luling.
August 2017Flash FloodBrownsboro-Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Harvey produced flash flooding leading to multiple water rescues and 100 low water crossings being closed around the southern part of the county.
May 2014HailBrownsboro-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Caldwell 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
Seawillow2.7 miles15
Watts2.9 miles15
Tilmon3.1 miles15
Mineral Springs (historical)3.8 miles15
Joliet3.8 miles15
Soda Springs4.5 miles16
McNeil5.4 miles16
McMahan6.7 miles15

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 BrownsboroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48851174The 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 1378057. 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.