Mobile City, Texas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Northeast Rockwall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75087. The Survey maps it on the Rockwall quadrangle. 142 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 594 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresMobile City fell from 196 to 142 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 196 | |
| 2010 | 188 | -8 (-4%) |
| 2020 | 142 | -46 (-24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 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.
- 1912 USGS Rockwall quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1919 USGS Royse City quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Rockwall quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1995 USGS Rockwall quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
211 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 211 fires within 5 miles of Mobile City between 2005 and 2018, burning about 722 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 80 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 76 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 15 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HOLIDAY |
| 5 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSH FIRE |
| 5 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2010-0647 |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 66 & FM 1138 - 11075351 |
| 3 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2016-904 |
| 28 September 2005 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2012-638 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fate | 2.0 miles | 16 | |
| Rockwall | 2.6 miles | 16 | |
| Blackland | 3.6 miles | 11 | |
| Glen Hill | 3.9 miles | 16 | |
| McLendon | 5.4 miles | 13 | |
| Royse City | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| McLendon-Chisholm | 5.8 miles | 13 | |
| Chisholm | 6.2 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 Mobile City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981408 | 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 1388619. 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.






