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Brunswick, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Alto census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75925. The Survey maps it on the Forest quadrangle.

Brunswick within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

155 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Brunswick between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,160 acres in total. 10 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 burning97
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Natural10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 536
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTANLEY GRESHAM
3 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRASH FIRE
27 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
24 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
24 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBILL CROMER
19 September 2006Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2008Debris and open burning2.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Brunswick: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Padreco-Alto SandsSilicaUnknown

Every working recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brunswick in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 hail. 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
May 2017HailBrunswick-Half dollar size hail fell south of Alto.

Every storm recorded in Cherokee 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
Morrill0.8 miles10
Wild Hurst4.6 miles10
Alto4.8 miles10
Forest5.3 miles10
Weeping Mary5.3 miles12
Cross Roads6.2 miles11
Sweet Union6.6 miles12
Linwood6.8 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1381527. 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.