Rochelle, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Rochelle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76872. The Survey maps it on the Rochelle quadrangle. 169 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,772 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 12 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.
- 1894 USGS Brady quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Rochelle quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Brady quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Rochelle between 2003 and 2010, burning about 808 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Natural | 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 August 2003 | Natural | 500 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROLLING PLAINS - 9 |
| 5 June 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 150 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 14 June 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | LOWE |
| 14 June 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 75 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 14 June 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 2315 |
| 23 November 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
28 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rochelle in 28 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 20 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind. 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 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rochelle | $3,000 | The roof of an outbuilding was damaged by high winds. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rochelle | $1,000 | High winds resulted in the downing of two utility poles. |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rochelle | $1,000 | Large tree limbs downed during high winds. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Rochelle | - | Public reported quarter size hail. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Rochelle | - | Public reported penny size hail. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Rochelle | - | Public reported quarter size hail. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Rochelle | - | The report was from mping. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Rochelle | - | The hail likely melted a little bit, but near ping pong ball size hail. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Rochelle | - | The public reported half dollar size hail. |
| April 2019 | Hail | Rochelle | - | Social media showed a picture of the quarter size hail near Early. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rochelle | - | Four to six inch diameter tree limbs were knocked down by the thunderstorm downburst on U.S. Highway 190. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rochelle | - | A trained spotter reported damaging thunderstorm winds knocked down trees in and around Rochelle. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rochelle | - | Damaging thunderstorm winds peeled off the entire metal roof of the school located in Rochelle and damaged at least 15 other roofs in the area. Extensive water damage to the school was also reported. The winds downed many trees throughout the town. |
| March 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rochelle | - | The public estimated a 60 MPH wind gust, 12 miles northeast of Brady. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Rochelle | - | Hail up to the size of softballs was reported near Rochelle in western McCulloch County. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Rochelle | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Rochelle | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rochelle | - | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Hail | Rochelle | - | no account filed |
| March 2013 | Hail | Rochelle | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Rochelle | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Rochelle | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Rochelle | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Rochelle | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Rochelle | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Rochelle | - | no account filed |
| January 1998 | Hail | Rochelle | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Rochelle | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Sweden | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| Paul Junction | 5.7 miles | 13 | |
| Selman | 6.2 miles | 14 | |
| Placid | 7.1 miles | 14 | |
| Brady | 9.0 miles | 13 | |
| Niblock | 11.2 miles | 12 | |
| West Sweden | 12.6 miles | 12 | |
| Lohn | 12.6 miles | 13 |
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 Rochelle | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q12834288 | 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 1366624. 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.



