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.
Population over time
2 figuresKerens 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,573 | |
| 2020 | 1,505 | -68 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 10 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.
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Kerens quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Corsicana quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
140 since 2005Regional 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/undetermined | 61 |
| Debris and open burning | 55 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 2014 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 14-090914 |
| 8 September 2014 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1411959 |
| 6 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1012283 |
| 5 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1111947 |
| 30 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1113330 |
| 3 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 09032010 WILDFIRE |
| 29 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1413004 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kerens | 2 killed, 4 hurt, $500,000 | no account filed |
| October 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kerens | $10,000 | A 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 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kerens | $10,000 | Two roofs were damaged in Kerens. Trees were also down and power outages were reported in the city. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Kerens | $7,000 | Emergency manager reported golf ball hail in Kerens. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kerens | $7,000 | A barn in Kerens that housed tractors and other similar equipment was destroyed by high thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kerens | $5,000 | A barn was damaged. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Kerens | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Kerens | - | Emergency management reported quarter sized hail just west of the city of Kerens, TX. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Kerens | - | Emergency management reported golf ball sized hail about a mile north of Kerens, TX. |
| October 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kerens | - | Emergency management reported trees down in the Kerens area. |
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kerens | - | Large branches were blown down. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Kerens | - | Quarter size hail covering the ground. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Kerens | - | Hail ranging in size from marbles to quarters reported. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kerens | - | Large tree limbs were blown down by high winds. |
| September 1998 | Flash Flood | Kerens | - | Heavy rains flooded some roads in Kerens. |
| March 2016 | Hail | Kerens | - | no account filed |
| February 2000 | Hail | Kerens | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Kerens | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kerens | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goodlow Park | 1.3 miles | 10 | |
| Goodnight | 3.7 miles | 10 | |
| Samaria | 3.9 miles | 10 | |
| Bazette | 4.2 miles | 9 | |
| Elm Flat | 5.1 miles | 9 | |
| Powell | 5.2 miles | 9 | |
| Round Prairie | 7.2 miles | 10 | |
| Rural Shade | 7.4 miles | 10 |
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 Kerens | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982614 | 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 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.



