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Buna, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Buna census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77612. It stands on Nance Branch. The Survey maps it on the Buna quadrangle. 2,137 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 75 feet above sea level.

Buna within Jasper County

Population over time

3 figures

Buna fell from 2,269 to 2,137 between 2000 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
20002,269
20102,142-127 (-6%)
20202,137-5 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

262 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 262 fires within 5 miles of Buna between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,431 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 62 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
Debris and open burning157
Arson/incendiarism62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 203
9 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 204
8 September 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service27963 HWY 96
7 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 316
5 September 1993Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 659
30 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2013Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service232 CR 639

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Storms near this place

47 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buna in 47 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 25 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 7 tornado, 5 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
February 1998Tornado (F1)Buna$1,000,000no account filed
June 2001Flash FloodBuna$500,000One home was flooded in the Buna area, but significant street and bridge damage occurred across portions of Jasper County as a result of nearly ten inches of rain in less than six hours.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindBuna$150,000no account filed
May 1999Tornado (F1)Buna$100,000no account filed
November 2000Tornado (F1)Buna$75,000no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindBuna$50,000no account filed
October 2018Tornado (EF1)Buna$25,000Tornado started along FM 253 causing roof damage to one home. The tornado then moved through a remote area causing tree damage for several miles to the northeast before ending near HWY 87 in Newton County. The maximum estimated winds were 104 MPH.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBuna$25,000no account filed
October 2014Thunderstorm WindBuna$20,000Photographs of multiple trees and some damage to a few houses, a couple of sheds, and a couple of fences were submitted to the Jasper County Emergency Management Facebook site and passed along to the NWS. The Jasper County 911 center also reported power lines downed around Buna due to trees falling on them.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBuna$20,000A porch roof was blown off a mobile home and a pine tree was down on a power line.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindBuna$15,000no account filed
May 2008Tornado (EF0)Buna$10,000Along Callier Loop, an EF-0 tornado briefly touched down and blew the roof off a barn and downed trees.
October 2006Flash FloodBuna$10,000Highway 96 and 62 near Buna were flooded. Highway 82 near Kirbyville was flooded.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindBuna$10,000no account filed
March 1997Thunderstorm WindBuna$10,000no account filed
May 2017Flash FloodBuna$5,000Four to 7 inches of rain fell on portions of Jasper county with Buna Elementary receiving 6.37 inches. Some streets were reported flooded including north and south bound US 96. A gas station in Buna was also flooded.
October 2002Thunderstorm WindBuna$5,000no account filed
June 1999Flash FloodBuna$5,000no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindBuna$5,000no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindBuna$4,000A few trees and power lines were blown down around Buna.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBuna$3,000A power pole was snapped in Downtown Buna.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindBuna$3,000Photos of trees and large branches down on a car near Buna was received through social media.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindBuna$2,000Trees downed by a passing storm north of Buna.
October 2018Tornado (EF0)Buna$2,000A weak tornado briefly touched down south of Buna along county road 784 producing minor tree damage.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindBuna$2,000Jasper county sheriffs office reports a few trees down along highway 60 south of Buna.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindBuna$2,000Jasper County Sheriff Office reported trees blown down in Buna.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindBuna$2,000no account filed
April 2004Thunderstorm WindBuna$2,000no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindBuna$2,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBuna$1,000Siding was blown off to the Cougar Stop convivence store in Buna.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindBuna$1,000Public reported via Facebook that a tree was blown down in Buna.
May 2025Flash FloodBuna-A gage reported Pin Oak Creek was out of its banks near Kirbyville. Multiple roads near Buna also had minor flooding.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindBuna-A personal weather station recorded a wind gust of 76 mph.
January 2016HailBuna-A picture received through Facebook indicated ping pong ball size hail near Buna.
June 2015FloodBuna-The heavy rain and flash flood event from the 17th lingered into the early morning of the 18th. Flood waters remained across southern sections of Jasper County through the morning of the 18th with many roadways remaining closed as the water slowly drained.
June 2013HailBuna-Penny sized hail was reported by the Buna Sawmill.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindBuna-The Buna Sawmill reported and estimated wind gust of 60 MPH with a passing storm.
August 2009HailBuna-Public reported marble to quarter size hail fell for 5 to 10 minutes in Buna.
March 2009HailBuna-An NWS Employee reported nickel size hail in Buna.
October 2007Tornado (EF0)Buna-Trained spotters observed a tornado pass over Highway 96, blowing a few trees down.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindBuna-Several large trees were blown down across roads in Buna.
April 2024HailBuna-no account filed
April 2024HailBuna-no account filed
May 2024HailBuna-no account filed
April 2017HailBuna-no account filed
June 2003HailBuna-no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindBuna-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jasper 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
Bessmay2.1 miles9
Bunker Hill2.7 miles9
Quinn5.2 miles13
Forbes5.6 miles9
Le Verte6.9 miles9
Temco7.5 miles12
Evadale7.9 miles12
Robertson10.0 miles9

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 BunaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982313The 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 1353302. 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.