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Bruni, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Laredo South-El Cenizo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78344. The Survey maps it on the Bruni quadrangle. 251 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 778 feet above sea level.

Bruni within Webb County

Population over time

2 figures

Bruni fell from 379 to 251 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
2010379
2020251-128 (-34%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Bruni between 2008 and 2016, burning about 101 acres in total. None 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/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1

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 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 November 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFORBES

Every fire recorded in Webb County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Bruni: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Benavides MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Bruni MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Bruni PlantUraniumProducer
Longoria MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Mobil Oil Company U Leach PlantUraniumProducer
O'Hern MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Uranium ResourcesUraniumProducer

Every working recorded in Webb County

Storms near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bruni in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 4 hail, 1 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
April 1994HailBruni$500,000Thunderstorms formed just before 0100 CST just to the west of Laredo in Mexico and began moving toward the northeast. At 0135 CST the sheriff's department in Laredo reported golf ball-sized hail that was accumulating up to six inches deep in places on Highway 83 South. Power was reported out in the downtown area and the southern parts of the city. Some of the low areas in Laredo were briefly flooded by the accompanying heavy rain.
May 2024HailBruni-Public photo of 2 inch hail submitted.
May 2015Flash FloodBruni-Low lying areas within the community of Bruni were flooded due to 5 inches of rainfall. Water was flowing down the streets.
July 2005Tornado (F0)Bruni-A NWS Storm survey concluded a tornado, in the outer rainbands of Hurricane Emily, formed approximately 2 miles east of Bruni, about 1/2 mile north of Highway 359. The tornado moved southwest for about 1/2 to 1 mile, crossing Highway 359, then dissipated. Damage was mostly limited to broken mesquite trees and damage to fences. There was also some corrugated roofing sheet metal that was lifted from a pile and strewn about. A truck camper shell was also lifted from the ground and deposited 500 yards away, along the line of travel.
April 2007HailBruni-no account filed
May 2001HailBruni-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Webb 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
Rodriguez Addition Colonia7.4 miles8
Oilton7.6 miles8
Los Ojuelos8.4 miles8
Mirando City Addition Colonia8.5 miles8
Mirando City8.5 miles8
Ranchitos los Veteranos Colonia9.5 miles8
Aguilares13.2 miles8
Aguilares Acres Colonia13.4 miles8

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 BruniAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q974518The 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 1331398. 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.

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.