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Miles, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Miles census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76861. The Survey maps it on the Miles quadrangle. 875 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,801 feet above sea level.

Miles within Runnels County

On record in Miles

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Miles grew from 829 to 875 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
2010829
2020875+46 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

20 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Miles between 2005 and 2020, burning about 160 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking3
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHANDLER & DOUGLAS LOOP
27 September 2005Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBOOK
20 August 2006Smoking15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 July 2012Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMULLINS CROSSING
9 July 2009Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMC MILLAN ROAD & FM1692 NORTH
8 July 2005Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2012Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGODFREY

Every fire recorded in Runnels County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Miles: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Willow Creek-1CopperOccurrence1972

Every working recorded in Runnels County

Storms near this place

33 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Miles in 33 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 21 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 death. 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
September 2024Flash FloodMiles1 killedLaw Enforcement received a call of a fatality from flash flooding. A man was swept away by swiftly flowing water.
May 2019Tornado (EF3)Miles$6,000,000This long track EF-3 Tornado damaged or destroyed several homes and outbuildings. |It snapped tree trunks and even swept one home completely off its foundation. The tornado wrapped a woman in carpet and threw her for 150 feet. Thankfully, she survived with minimal injuries. This tornado was multi-vortex at times as it also remained mostly in rural areas. It even lodged a steel C-Purlin into a branch of a Mesquite tree at the Ballinger Country Club. This tornado destroyed the Ballinger High school Baseball field and threw a steel axle into the water tower and punctured it, causing all of the water to drain. This tornado affected 30 homes and destroyed six homes.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindMiles$55,000A microburst damaged a grain elevator and cotton gin, destroyed 2 empty grain silos, and damaged numerous roofs and carports across the community of Miles. One exterior wall of a house was penetrated by a two-by-four from a carport damaged nearby. Wind speeds were estimated at 80 mph.
September 2024Flash FloodMiles-A County Official reported Farm to Market Road 1692 is closed at the draw due to flooding.
November 2024Flash FloodMiles-Public reported on social media that there were flooded roads near Miles.
May 2023HailMiles-The public reported golf ball size hail in Miles.
July 2022HailMiles-Law Enforcement reported nickel to quarter size hail.
June 2018HailMiles-The media reported 1.5 inch hail on U.S. Highway 67 near Miles.
May 2015HailMiles-Quarter to golfball size hail covered the ground in Miles.
May 2015HailMiles-Baseball size hail and high winds in Miles broke windows and skylights on multiple homes and businesses. The large hail also dented several vehicles.
May 2015Heavy RainMiles-Three inches of rain fell in one hour. One home experienced flooding.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindMiles-Large limbs were reported down throughout town and trees were uprooted. The strong winds also destroyed a garage on the outskirts of town.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindMiles-A member of the public estimated a 60 mph wind gust near Miles.
April 2007HailMiles-Golfball size hail was reported in Miles.
May 2002HailMiles-Law enforcement reported tennis ball size hail near Miles.
October 2001HailMiles-Hail up to the size of golf balls reported in southwest Runnels County.
April 2026HailMiles-no account filed
May 2023HailMiles-no account filed
April 2015HailMiles-no account filed
April 2015HailMiles-no account filed
May 2015HailMiles-no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindMiles-no account filed
May 2007HailMiles-no account filed
May 2007HailMiles-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindMiles-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindMiles-no account filed
December 2004Thunderstorm WindMiles-no account filed
September 2001HailMiles-no account filed
January 1999HailMiles-no account filed
May 1998HailMiles-no account filed
October 1998HailMiles-no account filed
August 1997HailMiles-no account filed
May 1995HailMiles-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Runnels 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
Rowena8.0 miles15
Olfen11.8 miles14
Bethel15.0 miles15
Valley View15.8 miles15
Ballinger15.8 miles15
Maverick16.3 miles15
Norton19.1 miles15
Marie20.9 miles14

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 MilesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977045The 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 1362837. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.