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Edge, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Northeast Brazos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77859. The Survey maps it on the Edge quadrangle.

Edge within Brazos County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 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

27 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Edge between 2005 and 2019, burning about 390 acres in total. None 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
21 September 2005Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 112
26 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE8-26-2015
22 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresTexas A & M Forest Service15924 E OSR
5 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service16-0000019
8 May 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service17-0000018
11 May 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceVF100000500
23 April 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 March 2006Debris and open burning40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKURTON COMPLEX FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brazos County

Storms near this place

8 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edge in 8 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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 2018Thunderstorm WindEdge$10,000Thunderstorm winds partially damaged a mobile home metal roof and downed large tree limbs.
December 2018Thunderstorm WindEdge$2,000Trees were downed on FM 974 and Edge Cut Off Road.
February 2012Flash FloodEdge$2,000Heavy thunderstorm rains caused water to cover FM 974 north of Kurten.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindEdge$1,000Two trees near Macey Road north of Kurten blocked traffic.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindEdge-TEEX Employee/Retired NWS Employee sent pictures of wind damage to a metal barn on Pine Tree Road near FM 974. Est peak wind speed of 65 mph.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindEdge-Trees were downed near the intersection of Pine Tree Road and Old Bundick Road. Additional trees were downed on Deep Well Road.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindEdge-A tree was downed near the intersection of Clay Hill Road and Ferrill Creek Road.
April 2009Tornado (EF0)Edge-A tornado was spotted near OSR and the Edge cutoff near the county boundary between Brazos and Robertson counties.

Every storm recorded in Brazos 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
Union2.0 miles7
Macey4.4 miles7
Cottonwood4.7 miles7
Kings Highway5.2 miles7
Kurten7.3 miles7
Tabor7.7 miles7
Democrat Crossing8.4 miles10
Moore8.5 miles7

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 EdgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28131879The 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 1356815. 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.