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Brushy Creek, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Frankston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75763. The Survey maps it on the Pert quadrangle. It stands 456 feet above sea level.

Brushy Creek within Anderson County

On record in Brushy Creek

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

160 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Brushy Creek between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,596 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 6 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 burning81
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Natural16
Equipment and vehicle use13
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks2

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
7 September 2002Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 210
5 September 1993Smoking4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePOVERTY HILL
4 September 2005Arson/incendiarism128 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 216
30 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 584
28 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDAVIS FIRE
27 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service441
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Brushy Creek: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Halite, Halite, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Limestone, General. 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
Brushy Creek Salt DomeHalite, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Limestone, GeneralOccurrenceAnhydrite, Calcite, Celestite, Halite
Concord Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1942

Every working recorded in Anderson County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brushy Creek in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
June 2025Flash FloodBrushy Creek$20,000EM reported road damage on FM 315 near Elmwood due to flooding.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindBrushy Creek$5,000Fire and rescue reported downed trees and damage to a well house on County Road 485 immediately south of the Henderson County line.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindBrushy Creek$2,000no account filed
May 2025Thunderstorm WindBrushy Creek-The local volunteer fire department reported several trees down on FM 837, blocking the road between Hwy 19 and Hwy 155.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBrushy Creek-Fourteen inch diameter trees were knocked down 2 miles north of Concord Church along County Road 404.
October 2010HailBrushy Creek-Quarter size hail was reported near Fosterville which is located about halfway between Brushy Creek and Poynor.
April 2005HailBrushy Creek-Golf ball size hail reported.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindBrushy Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Anderson 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
Elmwood2.8 miles13
Fosterville3.7 miles15
Elmtown4.3 miles13
Pert4.3 miles13
Mound Prairie6.5 miles13
Bois d'Arc7.3 miles12
Todd City7.7 miles10
Bradford8.3 miles12

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.

Wikipedia article on Brushy CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076424The 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 1379464. 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.