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.
Population over time
3 figuresBynum 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 225 | |
| 2010 | 199 | -26 (-12%) |
| 2020 | 171 | -28 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1892 USGS Waco quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1920 USGS Waco quadrangle1:125000
- 1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Abbott quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Waco quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
133 since 2008Regional 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 burning | 55 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 36 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 26 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ALLEN FIRE |
| 3 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CLARK FIRE |
| 3 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CLARK#2 |
| 27 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1946 FIRE |
| 25 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HCR 3154 COTTON FIRE |
| 22 September 2019 | Other causes | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ABBOTT STRUCTURE FIRE |
| 21 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 3137 |
| 21 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1243 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bynum | $500 | A social media report indicated two power poles and power lines down on Saylor Street in Bynum. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Bynum | - | A public report indicated quarter sized hail in the city of Bynum, TX. |
| December 2024 | Hail | Bynum | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Bynum | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Bynum | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q764723 | 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 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.





