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Lake Brownwood, Texas

17 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. It lies near McCartney Island. The Survey maps it on the Lake Brownwood quadrangle. 1,462 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,444 feet above sea level.

Lake Brownwood within Brown County

Population over time

2 figures

Lake Brownwood fell from 1,532 to 1,462 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,532
20201,462-70 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

141 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Lake Brownwood between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,058 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined53
Debris and open burning34
Equipment and vehicle use30
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1
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
4 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 563 7400
28 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2125 7417
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCCARTY 7416
15 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMAX
15 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE FM 2125
13 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service800 CR 423
8 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceAIRPORT 4659
5 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCCARTNEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

30 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Brownwood in 30 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 17 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 flash flood. The reports record 4 injuries. 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
May 2020Thunderstorm WindLake Brownwood3 hurtThe Brown County Emergency Manager reported extensive damage to multiple docks, including Kirkland Docks on Lake Brownwood resulting in four minor injuries. |There were tree limbs blown down and some trees were snapped. The winds were estimated at 70 to 80 mph. A special thanks to Brownwood Lake Patrol, Brownwood and Brown County Emergency Management and Brownwood Amateur Radio Club.
May 2002HailLake Brownwood1 hurt, $10,000A person was injured when the vehicle they were driving was struck by baseball size hail and the windshield was broken. The injuries were from broken glass and hail stones. There was also some roof damage to houses.
May 1994Tornado (F1)Lake Brownwood$500,000A tornado at Lake Brownwood destroyed a home and a business, damaged several homes, and destroyed boat docks and boats. Extensive damage occurred at the Lake Brownwood State Park where numerous recreational vehicles and trailers were overturned.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindLake Brownwood$200,000no account filed
June 2003Flash FloodLake Brownwood$10,000Water entered a few homes near Lake Brownwood.
April 2004HailLake Brownwood$10,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindLake Brownwood$500A roof was blown off a barn
March 2024HailLake Brownwood-Public reported quarter size hail.
May 2023HailLake Brownwood-The public reported pea to quarter size hail falling at the state park.
May 2023HailLake Brownwood-The public reported hen egg to tennis ball size hail falling near the Flat Rock Campground.
April 2015Tornado (EF1)Lake Brownwood-A tornado touched down near the intersection of Park Road 15 and County Road 455. The tornado continued east to Lake Brownwood. The most significant damage was to a well anchored carport in cement that was extracted by the tornado. Widespread damage was reported at Nichols Ranch to farm outbuildings, trees, homes, and boat docks.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindLake Brownwood-The damaging thunderstorm winds blew down trees, power lines and damaged one boat.
May 2013Tornado (EF0)Lake Brownwood-This tornado was spotted by trained amateur radio spotters over Lake Brownwood and was briefly on the ground.
March 2007Funnel CloudLake Brownwood-Funnel cloud spotted but there was no evidence that this funnel touched ground.
May 2002HailLake Brownwood-Golfball size hail reported just north of Lake Brownwood.
May 1994HailLake Brownwood-Power line poles were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
April 1994HailLake Brownwood-Heavy hail up to 0.75-inch in diameter fell at the upper end of Lake Brownwood on Pecan Bayou.
May 1994HailLake Brownwood-A tornado at Lake Brownwood destroyed a home and a business, damaged several homes, and destroyed boat docks and boats. Extensive damage occurred at the Lake Brownwood State Park where numerous recreational vehicles and trailers were overturned.
May 2023HailLake Brownwood-no account filed
April 2015HailLake Brownwood-no account filed
August 2004Flash FloodLake Brownwood-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindLake Brownwood-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindLake Brownwood-no account filed
May 2001HailLake Brownwood-no account filed
September 2001HailLake Brownwood-no account filed
January 1999HailLake Brownwood-no account filed
May 1996HailLake Brownwood-no account filed
June 1995Thunderstorm WindLake Brownwood-no account filed
April 1994HailLake Brownwood-no account filed
October 1993HailLake Brownwood-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
Lake Shore4.4 miles17
Owens4.4 miles14
Shamrock Shores5.0 miles17
Holder5.5 miles14
Byrds5.7 miles17
Thrifty6.8 miles15
Early7.3 miles20
Bluff View8.0 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 Lake BrownwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982018The 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 1339486. 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.