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Kurten, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Northeast Brazos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77808. The Survey maps it on the Kurten quadrangle. 395 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 344 feet above sea level.

Kurten within Brazos County

Population over time

2 figures

Kurten fell from 398 to 395 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
2010398
2020395-3 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 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

58 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Kurten between 2005 and 2017, burning about 279 acres in total. 1 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 burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE9-7-2015
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined19 acresTexas A & M Forest Service15-5663 KURTEN LANE FIRE
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13-0004997 GRASSBUR BRUSH FIRE
3 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13-0004959 KURTEN HAY FIRE
3 September 2012Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest Service12-0004476 RILEY ROAD GRASS FIRE
20 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceVF090001237
15 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service14-0005728 DEMOCRAT ROAD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brazos County

Storms near this place

19 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kurten in 19 storm reports between 2002 and 2022: 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 1 flood. 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
March 2022Tornado (EF1)Kurten$100,000This EF1 tornado pushed a home off its blocks and damaged the roof as well as snapping the trunks of trees.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindKurten$27,000A roof was blown off a home and there was damage to trees and power lines.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindKurten$15,000High winds uprooted trees, downed fences and ripped roofs off barns.
October 2022Thunderstorm WindKurten$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds damaged a barn in Kurten. Metal roofing was stripped from the building.
May 2013FloodKurten$10,000A foot of water covered the intersection of Deacon Drive and Rio Grande Street in College Station. Flash flooding was also reported on Old San Antonio Road as a creek was overrunning its banks. Minor street flooding was reported at the intersection of George Bush Drive and University Oaks Drive.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindKurten$10,000Roof torn off an auction barn.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindKurten$5,000Trees down along FM 974 near Wilson Pasture.
December 2002HailKurten$5,0000.75 inch hail.
December 2018Thunderstorm WindKurten$3,000A chicken coop was destroyed.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindKurten$3,000Trees were downed near the intersection of FM 1179 and FM 2038.
May 2003HailKurten$3,000no account filed
May 2009Thunderstorm WindKurten$2,000Numerous trees were reported downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindKurten$1,000A pulse severe thunderstorm produced strong winds that downed a couple of trees.
April 2019Funnel CloudKurten-A funnel cloud was sighted.
October 2018Flash FloodKurten-There were flooded roadways in and around the town of Kurten that included FM 2038 and Democrat Road.
April 2015HailKurten-Quarter sized hail was reported near Kurten.
May 2004Funnel CloudKurten-Funnel cloud on OSR.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindKurten-60 mph wind gust.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindKurten-60 mph wind gust in Wixon Valley.

Every storm recorded in Brazos 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
Reliance3.3 miles10
Wixon Valley3.4 miles7
Moore3.7 miles7
Cottonwood4.7 miles7
Democrat Crossing5.0 miles10
Tabor5.7 miles7
Union5.8 miles7
Steep Hollow6.5 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 KurtenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978996The 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 1360777. 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.