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.
Population over time
2 figuresLake 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,532 | |
| 2020 | 1,462 | -70 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1887 USGS Coleman quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1889 USGS Coleman quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1924 USGS Brownwood Reservoir Site quadrangle1:48000
- 1927 USGS Grosvenor quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1969 USGS Lake Brownwood quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Coleman quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
141 since 2005Regional 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/undetermined | 53 |
| Debris and open burning | 34 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 30 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 563 7400 |
| 28 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 2125 7417 |
| 27 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MCCARTY 7416 |
| 15 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MAX |
| 15 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE FM 2125 |
| 13 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 800 CR 423 |
| 8 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | AIRPORT 4659 |
| 5 August 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MCCARTNEY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
30 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Brownwood | 3 hurt | The 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 2002 | Hail | Lake Brownwood | 1 hurt, $10,000 | A 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 1994 | Tornado (F1) | Lake Brownwood | $500,000 | 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 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Brownwood | $200,000 | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Flash Flood | Lake Brownwood | $10,000 | Water entered a few homes near Lake Brownwood. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Lake Brownwood | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Brownwood | $500 | A roof was blown off a barn |
| March 2024 | Hail | Lake Brownwood | - | Public reported quarter size hail. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Lake Brownwood | - | The public reported pea to quarter size hail falling at the state park. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Lake Brownwood | - | The public reported hen egg to tennis ball size hail falling near the Flat Rock Campground. |
| April 2015 | Tornado (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 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Brownwood | - | The damaging thunderstorm winds blew down trees, power lines and damaged one boat. |
| May 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Lake Brownwood | - | This tornado was spotted by trained amateur radio spotters over Lake Brownwood and was briefly on the ground. |
| March 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Lake Brownwood | - | Funnel cloud spotted but there was no evidence that this funnel touched ground. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Lake Brownwood | - | Golfball size hail reported just north of Lake Brownwood. |
| May 1994 | Hail | Lake Brownwood | - | Power line poles were blown down by thunderstorm winds. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Lake Brownwood | - | Heavy hail up to 0.75-inch in diameter fell at the upper end of Lake Brownwood on Pecan Bayou. |
| May 1994 | Hail | Lake 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 2023 | Hail | Lake Brownwood | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Lake Brownwood | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Flash Flood | Lake Brownwood | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Brownwood | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Brownwood | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Lake Brownwood | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Lake Brownwood | - | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Hail | Lake Brownwood | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Lake Brownwood | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Brownwood | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Lake Brownwood | - | no account filed |
| October 1993 | Hail | Lake Brownwood | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Shore | 4.4 miles | 17 | |
| Owens | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Shamrock Shores | 5.0 miles | 17 | |
| Holder | 5.5 miles | 14 | |
| Byrds | 5.7 miles | 17 | |
| Thrifty | 6.8 miles | 15 | |
| Early | 7.3 miles | 20 | |
| Bluff View | 8.0 miles | 14 |
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 Brownwood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982018 | The 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.






