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North Roby, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Rotan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79543. It stands on Alkali Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rotan quadrangle.

North Roby within Fisher County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

76 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of North Roby between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,258 acres in total. 6 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
Debris and open burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use15
Smoking9
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2016Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMURPHY
6 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHULL
25 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIREDBUZZARD
22 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMEADER
31 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDITCH FIRE
31 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceS CURVE
21 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fisher County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of North Roby: 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Strontium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Oden OccurrenceStrontiumOccurrenceCelestite
Longworth Gypsum PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Rotan Gypsum PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer

Every working recorded in Fisher County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Roby in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 3 hail. 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
June 2025HailNorth Roby-Public reported baseball size hail 6 miles east of Rotan.
May 2023HailNorth Roby-The time estimated from radar.
June 2013HailNorth Roby-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fisher 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
Fisher0.9 miles15
Roby4.3 miles12
Royston4.7 miles15
Rotan5.2 miles15
Pledger6.2 miles15
Center6.4 miles12
Cross Roads6.5 miles10
Sardis6.8 miles15

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 North RobyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7056543The 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 1377187. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.