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Brushie Prairie, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Blooming Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76641. The Survey maps it on the Irene quadrangle.

Brushie Prairie within Navarro County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

159 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Brushie Prairie between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,513 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 17 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 burning72
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Equipment and vehicle use21
Arson/incendiarism17
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceALVIS PRATER
3 September 2011Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNAVARRO MILLS DAM FIRE
28 September 2015Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE-MUTUAL AID
28 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service639N FIRE
21 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceALFRED MARTIN FIRE
17 September 2011Smoking1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navarro County

Storms near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brushie Prairie in 1 storm report in 2004: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
February 2004Thunderstorm WindBrushie Prairie$10,000The roof of a mobile home was ripped off by high winds on County Road 3090 near Brushie Prairie.

Every storm recorded in Navarro 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
Emmett2.0 miles8
Raleigh3.2 miles8
Pelham3.6 miles8
Navarro Mills4.6 miles7
Spring Hill4.7 miles7
Dresden4.7 miles8
Silver City6.2 miles7
Frost6.5 miles8

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.

Wikidata item Q122592340The 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 1378059. 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.