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Hungerford, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the East Bernard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77448. It stands on Dry Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hungerford quadrangle. 390 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 105 feet above sea level.

Hungerford within Wharton County

Population over time

3 figures

Hungerford fell from 645 to 390 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
2000645
2010347-298 (-46%)
2020390+43 (+12%)

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

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Hungerford between 2009 and 2011, burning about 300 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
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
18 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEAST BERNARD FIRE
18 January 2009Debris and open burning100 acresTexas A & M Forest Service300 CR 219

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wharton County

Storms near this place

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hungerford in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 hail, 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 2012Thunderstorm WindHungerford$30,000A trailer home and shed were destroyed near the intersection of County Road 216 and County Road 225.
July 2002Flash FloodHungerford$25,000Roads flooded, some impassable, in Hungerford. Water in two homes.
April 1997HailHungerford$10,000no account filed
June 2012Thunderstorm WindHungerford$5,000Power lines were downed near Hungerford.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHungerford$5,000A small barn was destroyed with a tenth of a mile long debris path.
December 1997Thunderstorm WindHungerford$5,000Billboard blown down at CR 221 & HWY 59.
March 2002Thunderstorm WindHungerford$3,000Sheriff reported a large tree limb, 12 to 16 inches in diameter, snapped during strong winds and had blocked the road at Lees Lane and FM 1161 in Hungerford.
April 2015Flash FloodHungerford$1,000County Road 215 was impassable due to flood waters.
October 2006Thunderstorm WindHungerford$1,000Damage to a shed.
January 2017Flash FloodHungerford-Roads were flooded and impassable near the Wharton-Fort Bend County line, including County Road 215 near the West Bernard Creek.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindHungerford-Thunderstorm wind damage was reported near County Road 216 and Machaville Road. There was some tree damage and home window damage.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindHungerford-Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and blew windows out of homes in the town of Hungerford near County Road 218 and Highway 60.
March 2002Tornado (F0)Hungerford-There was a brief Tornado touchdown in the El Lobo Subdivision, 6 miles east of Hungerford, near the county line. Emergency management reported the event.

Every storm recorded in Wharton 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
Dinsmore5.8 miles10
Sorrelle6.0 miles9
Wharton6.2 miles10
Glen Flora7.1 miles9
Burr7.3 miles10
Dorman7.6 miles8
Egypt8.5 miles8
East Bernard9.1 miles11

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 HungerfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982118The 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 1338297. 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.