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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.

Mobile City within Rockwall County

Population over time

3 figures

Mobile 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.

YearPeople Change
2000196
2010188-8 (-4%)
2020142-46 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

211 since 2005

Regional 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 burning80
Missing data/not specified/undetermined76
Equipment and vehicle use17
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony8
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOLIDAY
5 September 2013Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2010-0647
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 66 & FM 1138 - 11075351
3 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2016-904
28 September 2005Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2012-638

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rockwall 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
Fate2.0 miles16
Rockwall2.6 miles16
Blackland3.6 miles11
Glen Hill3.9 miles16
McLendon5.4 miles13
Royse City5.5 miles11
McLendon-Chisholm5.8 miles13
Chisholm6.2 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 Mobile CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981408The 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.