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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.

Runyon within Palm Beach County

Then and now

1956 to 1987

The 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 sheet of Runyon, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Runyon, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

70 since 1992

Regional 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 maintenance32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural5
Smoking5
Debris and open burning4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
30 July 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 July 1996Smokingunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 July 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePAWN LAKE FIRE
4 June 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceTHE 4 O'CLOCK FIRE
4 June 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 June 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 June 2019Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSLIDE ( 50 )
1 June 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Palm Beach County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2015Tornado (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.

Every storm recorded in Palm Beach 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
Cardwell2.3 miles10
Belle Glade3.3 miles12
Dahlberg4.7 miles12
Fremd Village5.2 miles10
Belle Glade Camp5.3 miles12
South Bay5.4 miles12
Padgett Island5.4 miles10
Pahokee6.0 miles10

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 RunyonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7380155The 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.