Runyon, Florida
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Belle Glade-Pahokee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33430. The Survey maps it on the Belle Glade quadrangle.
Then and now
1956 to 1987The same ground, surveyed 31 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1956 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1970 USGS Belle Glade quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
70 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Runyon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 200 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 32 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 July 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 18 July 1996 | Smoking | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 1 July 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | PAWN LAKE FIRE |
| 4 June 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | THE 4 O'CLOCK FIRE |
| 4 June 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 15 June 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 1 June 2019 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | SLIDE ( 50 ) |
| 1 June 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Runyon in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Runyon | - | Multiple reports of a waterspout coming onshore northwest of Belle Glade. Estimated strength was EF-0 with no damage reported. The duration was approximately 3 minutes. Times were estimated via radar. The tornado moved as far inland as the Hoover Dike but remained mostly inside the dike with no impact on populated areas. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cardwell | 2.3 miles | 10 | |
| Belle Glade | 3.3 miles | 12 | |
| Dahlberg | 4.7 miles | 12 | |
| Fremd Village | 5.2 miles | 10 | |
| Belle Glade Camp | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| South Bay | 5.4 miles | 12 | |
| Padgett Island | 5.4 miles | 10 | |
| Pahokee | 6.0 miles | 10 |
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 Runyon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7380155 | 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 290059. 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.






