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Brownwood, Texas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Orange census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77630. It stands on Little Cypress Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Orange quadrangle.

Brownwood within Orange County

On record in Brownwood

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Brownwood between 1998 and 2015, burning about 80 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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
22 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
22 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
18 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
8 March 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service490 V 9
24 March 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 179
15 March 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 February 2015Arson/incendiarism36 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8019
7 October 2002Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 209

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Brownwood: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. 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
G.T.M. Sand PitSilicaProducer
Orange PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
R A Mann Bayon Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Alpha Portland Clay PitClayProducer
Orange PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brownwood in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 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
January 2013Flash FloodBrownwood$5,000After a wet start to the year more rain fell on the 9th. Slow moving thunderstorms moved into far Southeast Texas and South Louisiana. Heavy rain fell across Orange County with reports of water 4 inches deep in a home in Bridge City and cars stalled along a flooded Round Bunch Road.

Every storm recorded in Orange 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
Pine Grove1.3 miles16
Orange1.5 miles19
Bland2.0 miles16
Bruner2.0 miles16
Pinehurst2.1 miles16
West Orange2.5 miles16
Doc Brown2.6 miles16
Echo2.6 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1331377. 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.

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.