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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.

Runaway Bay within Wise County

Population over time

2 figures

Runaway 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,286
20201,546+260 (+20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

151 since 2005

Regional 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/undetermined79
Debris and open burning32
Equipment and vehicle use16
Smoking11
Arson/incendiarism9
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePR 3512 FIRE
19 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 380 W HONEYHOLLOW RANCH
19 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use32 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMARTIN DAIRY FIRE
8 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wise 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
Rickels2.8 miles10
Lake Bridgeport3.8 miles10
Balsora3.8 miles9
Willow Point4.1 miles8
Boonsville6.9 miles9
Bridgeport7.2 miles10
Draco8.3 miles9
Chico9.8 miles8

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 BayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q972930The 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.