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Roaring Springs, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Matador census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79256. It lies near Shinnery Draw. The Survey maps it on the Roaring Springs quadrangle. 217 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,507 feet above sea level.

Roaring Springs within Motley County

Population over time

3 figures

Roaring Springs fell from 265 to 217 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
2000265
2010234-31 (-12%)
2020217-17 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 8 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

37 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Roaring Springs between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,692 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 2 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Natural13
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning1

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
25 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use600 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM684
8 August 2006Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2006Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 August 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePHARR-HYMER
10 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSPRINGS RANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Motley County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roaring Springs in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 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 1995HailRoaring Springs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Motley 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
Mac Bain6.3 miles8
Matador8.0 miles8
Russellville9.0 miles8
Whiteflat14.3 miles8
Whitestar18.9 miles8
Flomot23.7 miles8
Folley27.5 miles8
Northfield30.1 miles8

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 Roaring SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q12641289The 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 1366557. 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.