Long Branch, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Reagan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76653. It stands on Long Branch. The Survey maps it on the Kosse West quadrangle.

Long Branch within Falls County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Kosse West quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Marlin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

25 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Long Branch between 2005 and 2018, burning about 284 acres in total. 1 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 burning	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	1
Natural	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
23 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
10 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FIRE
6 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	REKINDLE OF HASH FIRE
16 July 2012	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SCHNIEDER UNTATTENDED FIRE
6 June 2009	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 2159 ACROSS CLOSS RD
5 June 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	746 SH14
5 June 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	257 FIRE
21 June 2011	Natural	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY 14

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Falls County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Long Branch: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Garrett Quarry & Plant	Limestone, General	Producer

Every working recorded in Falls 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Alto Springs	2.3 miles	6
Blue Ridge	2.7 miles	6
Mustang	2.9 miles	6
Stranger	4.9 miles	6
Reagan	5.4 miles	7
Beacon	8.1 miles	7
Sunrise	9.5 miles	7
Coymack	9.5 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380109. 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.