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Grosvenor, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bangs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76801. The Survey maps it on the Burkett quadrangle.

Grosvenor within Brown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

136 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Grosvenor between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,336 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 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 burning39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Equipment and vehicle use32
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Smoking6
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
5 September 2005Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIRLAND (4141)
27 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 574 (4135)
2 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE CR 105

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Grosvenor: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Unnamed PitFire Clay (Refractory)ProducerSedimentary
Martin Brick Co PitClayProducer
Texas Brick Co Clay PitClayProducer
Texas Brick Co Crosscut PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grosvenor in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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
October 2018FloodGrosvenor$2,400,000Prolonged heavy rainfall flooded roads across Brown County since September and this new flooding damaged some roads and bridges in the county.
May 1995Tornado (F0)Grosvenor$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down by a tornado.
May 2024HailGrosvenor-A storm chaser reported 2 inch diameter size hail.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindGrosvenor-The public reported a few trees blown down, power lines down and a roof blown off a barn 5 miles north-northwest of Lake Brownwood.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindGrosvenor-Damaging thunderstorm winds blew a back porch over the house, and the attached porch also removed the roof. This occurred about a half mile west of Highway 279 or 3 miles east southeast of Grosvenor.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindGrosvenor-The Brown County Sheriff's office estimated a wind gust to near 60 mph.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindGrosvenor-The National Weather Service survey team reported that a portion of a roof of a home was blown off and a small part of the roof of a metal barn was peeled back.
October 2014HailGrosvenor-no account filed
October 2014HailGrosvenor-no account filed
March 2013HailGrosvenor-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Blackwell Crossing3.1 miles15
Fry4.3 miles15
Lake Shore4.8 miles17
Thrifty5.0 miles15
Shamrock Shores5.1 miles17
Byrds6.1 miles17
Lake Brownwood8.2 miles17
Holder9.3 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 GrosvenorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q115803578The 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 1378390. 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.