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Enright, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the South Brazos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77845. The Survey maps it on the Wellborn quadrangle.

Enright within Brazos County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

200 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 200 fires within 5 miles of Enright between 1992 and 2020, burning about 668 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined71
Debris and open burning69
Equipment and vehicle use35
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2019Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCHEHIN FIRE
8 September 2017Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMARGRAVES FIRE
8 September 2017Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service17-6258 GREENS PRAIRIE FIRE
7 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service16-5882 TRAILER FIRE
5 September 2014Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service14-0005468 ARRINGTON FIRE
29 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTAHTCHER FIRE
27 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13200 S DOWLING RD 12-0001099
24 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service20365 FM 2154

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brazos County

Storms near this place

6 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Enright in 6 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
September 2019Thunderstorm WindEnright$4,000There was damage to a large shed like structure near Sebesta Lane.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindEnright$1,400A pole line was knocked down to a forty-five degree angle with the wires sagging.
March 2025HailEnright-Hail was reported via MPING south of College Station.
February 2024HailEnright-Dime to penny sized hail was reported.
April 2019HailEnright-Dime sized hail was reported near the Texas World Speedway.
August 2017Tornado (EF0)Enright-Tree down at property on Olympia Buddy Road. A brief spin up.

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
Royder1.6 miles10
Wellborn2.0 miles10
Wicker2.4 miles10
Koppe4.8 miles10
Millican5.6 miles14
Peach Creek5.9 miles9
Cawthon6.7 miles14
Nelleva6.8 miles14

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 EnrightAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q115152724The 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 1379728. 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.