Redford, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Presidio census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79846. The Survey maps it on the Redford quadrangle. 43 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,520 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresRedford fell from 132 to 43 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 132 | |
| 2010 | 90 | -42 (-32%) |
| 2020 | 43 | -47 (-52%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1896 USGS Polvo quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Presidio quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Presidio quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Redford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Redford quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Redford quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Redford between 2006 and 2019, burning about 260 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 burning | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 March 2006 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | 200 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | RATTLE |
| 30 November 2018 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | REDFORD FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Redford in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2004 | Hail | Redford | $20,000 | Tennis ball size hail resulted in car and camper damage in extreme southern portions of Presidio County. |
| July 2025 | Flash Flood | Redford | - | A Texas Parks and Wildlife Park Ranger reported high water over FM 170 East at Terneros Creek. The time of occurrence is estimated by radar. No damage was reported. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Redford | - | Nickel size hail was accompanied by 40 to 50 mph winds, two to four miles west-northwest of Lajitas. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Redford | - | Hail up to the size of pennies covered the ground at Big Bend Ranch State Park. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Redford | - | Microburst winds measured by an anemometer.Downbursting potential was high with inverted-V soundings at 00z that evening, but storms were rather limited over the area. Most storms were of a pulse variety with a very short cell life. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Redford | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Redford | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polvo | 1.0 miles | 11 | |
| Loma Pelona | 8.5 miles | 13 | |
| Fort Leaton (historical) | 9.5 miles | 13 | |
| Papalote Colorado | 9.7 miles | 11 | |
| Papalote Escondido | 10.2 miles | 16 | |
| Presidio | 12.3 miles | 13 | |
| Papalote Llano | 12.9 miles | 16 | |
| Papalote Seco | 15.0 miles | 16 |
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 Redford | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982123 | 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 1344981. 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.





