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Bynum, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hillsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76631. The Survey maps it on the Abbott quadrangle. 171 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 648 feet above sea level.

Bynum within Hill County

Population over time

3 figures

Bynum fell from 225 to 171 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
2000225
2010199-26 (-12%)
2020171-28 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

133 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Bynum between 2008 and 2020, burning about 1,043 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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 burning55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Equipment and vehicle use26
Arson/incendiarism9
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2
Natural1
Smoking1

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceALLEN FIRE
3 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCLARK FIRE
3 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCLARK#2
27 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1946 FIRE
25 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHCR 3154 COTTON FIRE
22 September 2019Other causes10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceABBOTT STRUCTURE FIRE
21 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3137
21 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1243

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hill County

Storms near this place

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bynum in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2026Thunderstorm WindBynum$500A social media report indicated two power poles and power lines down on Saylor Street in Bynum.
April 2018HailBynum-A public report indicated quarter sized hail in the city of Bynum, TX.
December 2024HailBynum-no account filed
April 1996HailBynum-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hill 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
Chatt5.0 miles14
Brandon5.6 miles8
Lakenon5.7 miles15
Winslow6.6 miles14
Malone6.8 miles7
Abbott7.1 miles14
Irene7.1 miles8
Hillsboro7.3 miles15

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 BynumAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q764723The 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 1372861. 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.