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O'Brien, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Rochester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79539. The Survey maps it on the Knox City quadrangle. 91 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,575 feet above sea level.

O'Brien within Haskell County

Population over time

2 figures

O'Brien fell from 106 to 91 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
2010106
202091-15 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

17 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of O'Brien between 2006 and 2018, burning about 122 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
16 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKNOX CITY GRASS FIRE
23 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresTexas A & M Forest Service14-0823A
20 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2163 GRASS FIRE
3 May 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 May 2013Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKC GRASS FIRE X2
4 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOTTON FIELD
22 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROCHESTER CEMETERY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Haskell County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names O'Brien in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash 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
August 1996Thunderstorm WindO Brien$2,000no account filed
May 2021Thunderstorm WindO Brien-Damaging thunderstorm winds damaged an outbuilding and blew down a grain house on the south side of O'Brien near State Highway 6.
May 2015Tornado (EF0)O Brien-A trained spotter reported a tornado through the Haskell County Sheriff's office about 3.7 miles east of O'Brien.
May 2009Tornado (EF0)O Brien-An tornado briefly touched down in an open field as reported by Haskell County Law Enforcement.
May 2007Flash FloodO Brien-Texas Department of Transportation closed Farm to Market Roads 2136 between highway 617 and 2229 due to flooding. There was also water reported over 380 between Highway 6 and 2407.
May 2015HailO Brien-no account filed
September 2005HailO Brien-no account filed
July 2004HailO Brien-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Haskell 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
Rochester4.5 miles7
Jud8.4 miles7
Weinert9.9 miles7
Josselet12.5 miles7
Pinkerton12.5 miles8
Rule13.8 miles8
Mattson15.7 miles7
Haskell16.4 miles7

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 O'BrienAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977438The 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 1364256. 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.