Editing Brownwood, Texas (section)

==History==
[[File:Texas - Brownwood through Chisos Mountains - NARA - 68149091 (cropped).jpg|250px|thumb|left|Brownwood in 1937]]
The original site of the Brown County seat of Brownwood was east of [[Pecan Bayou (Colorado River)|Pecan Bayou]]. A dispute arose over land and water rights, and the settlers were forced to find a new location. [[Greenleaf Fisk]] donated {{convert|60|acre}} to relocate the county seat to the west side of the bayou, on what is now the current site of Brownwood,<ref>{{cite book| last=Aston| first=B.W| title=Along the Texas Forts Trail| year=1997| publisher=University of North Texas Press| isbn=978-1-57441-035-8| author2=Taylor, Ira Donathon| page=120}}</ref> and 100 additional acres for county use. The town was incorporated in 1884.<ref>{{cite web| last=Odintz| first=Mark| title=Brownwood, Texas| url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/heb13| work=Handbook of Texas Online| publisher=Texas State Historical Association| access-date=February 18, 2011}}</ref>

During the Second World War, Brownwood was the location of U.S. Army [[Camp Bowie]], which had a peak complement of over 80,000 soldiers. Camp Bowie serves as a training camp today at the intersection [[farm to market|Farm-to-Market Roads]] 45 and 2126.

On April 19, 1976, an [[1976 Brownwood tornado|F5 tornado]] struck near Brownwood, causing extensive damage, with 11 reported injuries, but no fatalities.<ref>[http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ssd/techmemo/sr213.htm A Severe Weather and Flood Climatology of West Central Texas]. Retrieved July 16, 2010.</ref>

Brownwood's census figures were re-evaluated after the 2000 census from 18,813 to reflect more accurate figures of 20,407.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Brownwood TX 76803 (Brown County)|url=https://www.allplaces.us/z/76803|access-date=2022-01-15|website=www.allplaces.us}}</ref> The city was categorized in 2003 as a [[micropolitan statistical area]]. The federal [[Office of Management and Budget]] has issued a definition of micropolitan statistical areas as "an urban cluster of at least 10,000, but less than 50,000 population, plus adjacent territory that has a high degree of social and economic integration with the core, as measured by commuting ties."

A dispute over water rights created the adjacent city of [[Early, Texas|Early]]. The two cities are separated by the Pecan Bayou, one of five major tributaries of the [[Colorado River (Texas)|Colorado River]] of Texas.