Runaway Bay, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Bridgeport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76426. It stands on Coal Bed Branch. The Survey maps it on the Wizard Wells quadrangle. 1,546 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 912 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRunaway Bay grew from 1,286 to 1,546 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,286 | |
| 2020 | 1,546 | +260 (+20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1954 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Wizard Wells quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Denton quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Denton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
151 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Runaway Bay between 2005 and 2016, burning about 3,126 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 79 |
| Debris and open burning | 32 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Smoking | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
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 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PR 3512 FIRE |
| 19 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 380 W HONEYHOLLOW RANCH |
| 19 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 11 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 32 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MARTIN DAIRY FIRE |
| 8 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rickels | 2.8 miles | 10 | |
| Lake Bridgeport | 3.8 miles | 10 | |
| Balsora | 3.8 miles | 9 | |
| Willow Point | 4.1 miles | 8 | |
| Boonsville | 6.9 miles | 9 | |
| Bridgeport | 7.2 miles | 10 | |
| Draco | 8.3 miles | 9 | |
| Chico | 9.8 miles | 8 |
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 Runaway Bay | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q972930 | 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 1388609. 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.




