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Runge, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Runge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78151. The Survey maps it on the Runge quadrangle. 892 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 312 feet above sea level.

Runge within Karnes County

Population over time

2 figures

Runge fell from 1,031 to 892 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
20101,031
2020892-139 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

17 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Runge between 2006 and 2019, burning about 412 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2018Natural20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOHN SMOLIK
4 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKARNES COUNTY CR334 #2
4 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCLAYTON VAUGHN
4 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceKARNES COUNTY CR334
21 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR333 AND CR334
14 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHARVEY MENN
6 August 2008Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Karnes County

Storms near this place

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Runge in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
April 1997Thunderstorm WindRunge$5,000Widespread damage was reported to trees in the Runge area, with many trees blown over by the damaging winds.
April 2024HailRunge-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail near Runge.
May 2020HailRunge-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Runge. We were sent a picture of the hail.
August 2016Flash FloodRunge-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing FM81 at FM627 and County Road 334 between Runge and Helena.
May 2014Flash FloodRunge-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding. Sections of Highways 72 and 81 were under water.
May 2013Funnel CloudRunge-A thunderstorm produced a funnel cloud near the town of Runge.
March 2012Tornado (EF0)Runge-A small weak EF0 tornado formed along the leading edge of a large cluster of storms in Runge, crossing a few neighborhood streets. Most damage was confined to house roofs, outbuildings, and trees.
May 2005HailRunge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Karnes 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
Helena7.6 miles9
Couch8.0 miles7
Choate8.3 miles7
Kenedy8.4 miles9
Karnes City10.0 miles9
Panna Maria11.1 miles9
Mayo11.2 miles9
Ecleto11.4 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 RungeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981080The 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 1367003. 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.