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Kerens, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Kerens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75144. It stands on Cemetery Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kerens quadrangle. 1,505 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 371 feet above sea level.

Kerens within Navarro County

Population over time

2 figures

Kerens fell from 1,573 to 1,505 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
20101,573
20201,505-68 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

140 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Kerens between 2005 and 2020, burning about 664 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined61
Debris and open burning55
Equipment and vehicle use15
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service14-090914
8 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1411959
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1012283
5 September 2008Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1111947
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1113330
3 September 2010Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service09032010 WILDFIRE
29 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1413004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navarro County

Storms near this place

19 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kerens in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 9 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 deaths and 4 injuries. 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
March 1997Thunderstorm WindKerens2 killed, 4 hurt, $500,000no account filed
October 2019Thunderstorm WindKerens$10,000A public report indicated that half of a roof was removed and a car port destroyed by thunderstorm winds in the city of Kerens, TX.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindKerens$10,000Two roofs were damaged in Kerens. Trees were also down and power outages were reported in the city.
March 2025HailKerens$7,000Emergency manager reported golf ball hail in Kerens.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindKerens$7,000A barn in Kerens that housed tractors and other similar equipment was destroyed by high thunderstorm winds.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindKerens$5,000A barn was damaged.
April 2008HailKerens$5,000no account filed
April 2017HailKerens-Emergency management reported quarter sized hail just west of the city of Kerens, TX.
April 2017HailKerens-Emergency management reported golf ball sized hail about a mile north of Kerens, TX.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindKerens-Emergency management reported trees down in the Kerens area.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindKerens-Large branches were blown down.
April 2005HailKerens-Quarter size hail covering the ground.
April 2005HailKerens-Hail ranging in size from marbles to quarters reported.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindKerens-Large tree limbs were blown down by high winds.
September 1998Flash FloodKerens-Heavy rains flooded some roads in Kerens.
March 2016HailKerens-no account filed
February 2000HailKerens-no account filed
June 1997HailKerens-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindKerens-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Navarro 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
Goodlow Park1.3 miles10
Goodnight3.7 miles10
Samaria3.9 miles10
Bazette4.2 miles9
Elm Flat5.1 miles9
Powell5.2 miles9
Round Prairie7.2 miles10
Rural Shade7.4 miles10

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 KerensAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982614The 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 1339049. 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.