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.
Population over time
2 figuresRunge 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,031 | |
| 2020 | 892 | -139 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1953 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Runge quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Goliad quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
17 since 2006Regional 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 use | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2018 | Natural | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | JOHN SMOLIK |
| 4 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | KARNES COUNTY CR334 #2 |
| 4 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CLAYTON VAUGHN |
| 4 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | KARNES COUNTY CR334 |
| 21 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR333 AND CR334 |
| 14 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HARVEY MENN |
| 6 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Runge | $5,000 | Widespread damage was reported to trees in the Runge area, with many trees blown over by the damaging winds. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Runge | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail near Runge. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Runge | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Runge. We were sent a picture of the hail. |
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Runge | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing FM81 at FM627 and County Road 334 between Runge and Helena. |
| May 2014 | Flash Flood | Runge | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding. Sections of Highways 72 and 81 were under water. |
| May 2013 | Funnel Cloud | Runge | - | A thunderstorm produced a funnel cloud near the town of Runge. |
| March 2012 | Tornado (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 2005 | Hail | Runge | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helena | 7.6 miles | 9 | |
| Couch | 8.0 miles | 7 | |
| Choate | 8.3 miles | 7 | |
| Kenedy | 8.4 miles | 9 | |
| Karnes City | 10.0 miles | 9 | |
| Panna Maria | 11.1 miles | 9 | |
| Mayo | 11.2 miles | 9 | |
| Ecleto | 11.4 miles | 10 |
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 Runge | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981080 | 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 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.




