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Brownsboro, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Chandler-Brownsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75756. It stands on Murchison Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brownsboro quadrangle. 1,212 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 381 feet above sea level.

Brownsboro within Henderson County

Population over time

2 figures

Brownsboro grew from 1,039 to 1,212 between 2010 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
20101,039
20201,212+173 (+17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Brownsboro between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,055 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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 burning56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
5 September 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2011Smoking18 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 488
3 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2004Debris and open burning18 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 145
23 September 2002Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 217
22 September 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2005Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 284

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henderson County

Storms near this place

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brownsboro in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 6 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood. 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 2008Thunderstorm WindBrownsboro$60,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto a house in Brownsboro. The tree fell into the interior of the house, causing an estimated $60,000 in damages. Two cars were also damaged by the tree.
December 2002Thunderstorm WindBrownsboro$10,000Trees and powerlines were blown down by high winds.
May 2017HailBrownsboro$1,000Social Media reported golf ball size hail in Brownsboro.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindBrownsboro$500Trees and power lines were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
March 2025HailBrownsboro-Amateur radio operator reported quarter sized hail at FM 607 and CR 3612 southwest of Brownsboro.
June 2023HailBrownsboro-Quarter sized hail was reported just north of Brownsboro.
March 2019HailBrownsboro-A social media report indicated quarter to ping-pong ball size hail approximately one mile north of the city of Brownsboro, TX.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindBrownsboro-Tree limbs down; relayed by city officials.
May 2000Flash FloodBrownsboro-Flash flooding was reported in Brownsboro.
May 2000Flash FloodBrownsboro-Flash flooding was reported near Edom.
May 1999Flash FloodBrownsboro-A low water crossing around Lake Palestine was under water and County Road 3163 was also under water from thunderstorm rains.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindBrownsboro-Large tree limbs were blown down by high winds.
May 1994HailBrownsboro-Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
January 1998HailBrownsboro-no account filed
February 1998Thunderstorm WindBrownsboro-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henderson 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
Union Hill1.4 miles13
Opelika3.2 miles13
New Hope3.7 miles13
Evelyn4.3 miles13
Leagueville5.4 miles15
Antioch5.5 miles15
Chandler7.1 miles16
Murchison7.4 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 BrownsboroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982589The 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 1353003. 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.