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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.

Redford within Presidio County

Population over time

3 figures

Redford 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.

YearPeople Change
2000132
201090-42 (-32%)
202043-47 (-52%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

3 since 2006

Regional 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 burning3

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 March 2006Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 March 2019Debris and open burning200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRATTLE
30 November 2018Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceREDFORD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Presidio County

Storms near this place

7 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2004HailRedford$20,000Tennis ball size hail resulted in car and camper damage in extreme southern portions of Presidio County.
July 2025Flash FloodRedford-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 2006HailRedford-Nickel size hail was accompanied by 40 to 50 mph winds, two to four miles west-northwest of Lajitas.
April 2006HailRedford-Hail up to the size of pennies covered the ground at Big Bend Ranch State Park.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindRedford-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 2006HailRedford-no account filed
April 2002HailRedford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Presidio 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
Polvo1.0 miles11
Loma Pelona8.5 miles13
Fort Leaton (historical)9.5 miles13
Papalote Colorado9.7 miles11
Papalote Escondido10.2 miles16
Presidio12.3 miles13
Papalote Llano12.9 miles16
Papalote Seco15.0 miles16

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 RedfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982123The 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.