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Richland, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Dawson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76681. The Survey maps it on the Richland quadrangle. 255 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 367 feet above sea level.

Richland within Navarro County

Population over time

2 figures

Richland fell from 264 to 255 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
2010264
2020255-9 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

169 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Richland between 2005 and 2019, burning about 1,126 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 17 were 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 burning75
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Equipment and vehicle use23
Arson/incendiarism17
Smoking4
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR SW2150
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSW COUNTY ROAD 0020 / SW COUNTY ROAD 0030 (41)
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service21176 HWY 14
5 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2005Smoking25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTORY RD.
30 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMURRAY PLACE HWY 14
28 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service571 SE CR1180

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navarro County

Storms near this place

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richland in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 hail, 6 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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
January 2007Flash FloodRichland$35,000Flash flooding was reported over much of the central and southern portions of the county. A total of 51 roads were closed, one bridge was washed out, and numerous creeks were flooded from Richland, to Navarro, to Corsicana. Two cars were washed off roadways.
June 2025Flash FloodRichland$10,000EM reported two high water rescues on the service road near mile marker 220 of Interstate 45 north of Richland. The first one was at the marked start time, and the second one was about half an hour later.
June 2025Flash FloodRichland$5,000EM reported a high water rescue on SW CR 2340 south of Richland.
June 2016Flash FloodRichland$5,000High water rescue on Interstate 45 on mile marker 218.
June 2016Flash FloodRichland-Heavy rain caused roads near Richland (including Interstate 45) to flood.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindRichland-Limbs blown down.
September 2007Tornado (EF0)Richland-This brief tornado developed near the community of Richland and moved to the northeast, causing minor tree damage to the west of Highway 14.
March 2007Flash FloodRichland-Flooding reported around the Richland-Chambers Reservoir. Emergency rescues were needed for residents in Powell, including one high water rescue. Numerous roads were closed, including CR 2160, CR 3143 and CR 3144.
April 1998Thunderstorm WindRichland-Large tree limbs were blown down.
October 1998Tornado (F0)Richland-A narrow, short lived tornado was reported by the Sheriff's Office. No damage was reported.
July 2005HailRichland-no account filed
November 2004HailRichland-no account filed
May 1999HailRichland-no account filed
May 1998HailRichland-no account filed
October 1997HailRichland-no account filed
March 1996HailRichland-no account filed
March 1996HailRichland-no account filed
March 1996HailRichland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Navarro 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
Currie4.4 miles7
Cheneyboro4.8 miles9
Angus5.5 miles10
Navarro5.6 miles7
Mustang6.0 miles10
Pursley6.1 miles7
Pickett6.4 miles10
Retreat7.8 miles10

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 RichlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q974835The 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 1345182. 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.