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.
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.
- Navy Park Historic Districtlisted 1999 · 0.5 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1932 USGS Orange quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1946 USGS Phoenix Lake quadrangle1:31680
- 1952 USGS Lake Charles quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Lake Charles quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Phoenix Lake quadrangle1:31680
- 1955 USGS Orange quadrangle1:62500
- 1960 USGS Orange quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1960 USGS Orange quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Lake Charles quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1996 USGS Orange quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
10 since 1998Regional 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Louisiana Office of Forestry | not named |
| 22 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Louisiana Office of Forestry | not named |
| 18 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Louisiana Office of Forestry | not named |
| 8 March 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 490 V 9 |
| 24 March 2011 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 179 |
| 15 March 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 14 February 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 36 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 8019 |
| 7 October 2002 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 209 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| G.T.M. Sand Pit | Silica | Producer | ||
| Orange Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| R A Mann Bayon Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Alpha Portland Clay Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Orange Pit | Clay | Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2013Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2013 | Flash Flood | Brownwood | $5,000 | After 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. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Grove | 1.3 miles | 16 | |
| Orange | 1.5 miles | 19 | |
| Bland | 2.0 miles | 16 | |
| Bruner | 2.0 miles | 16 | |
| Pinehurst | 2.1 miles | 16 | |
| West Orange | 2.5 miles | 16 | |
| Doc Brown | 2.6 miles | 16 | |
| Echo | 2.6 miles | 18 |
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.









