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Bruceville, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Moody-Lorena census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76630. It stands on Lusk Branch. The Survey maps it on the Bruceville quadrangle.

Bruceville within McLennan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

61 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Bruceville between 2006 and 2020, burning about 766 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use12
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
6 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNATTENDED CONTROLLED BURN
28 September 2019Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTOWERS
11 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceVIOLATION OF BURN BAN
9 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
31 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use237 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBOX RANCH
31 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
25 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McLennan County

Storms near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bruceville in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2003: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
August 2003Thunderstorm WindBruceville$15,000Travel trailer being towed on Interstate 35 blown over and a mobile home was unroofed.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindBruceville$5,000Power lines were blown down in the Bruceville/Eddy area by thunderstorm winds.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindBruceville$2,000Utility pole blown down by high winds.
June 2003HailBruceville-no account filed
May 1998HailBruceville-no account filed
May 1997HailBruceville-no account filed
May 1997HailBruceville-no account filed
May 1997HailBruceville-no account filed
August 1996Flash FloodBruceville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McLennan 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
Bruceville-Eddy1.3 miles16
Eddy1.9 miles16
Lorena4.8 miles16
Spring Valley6.2 miles16
Moody6.7 miles16
Levi7.3 miles15
Rosenthal9.9 miles15
Hewitt10.1 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1388210. 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.