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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.

Rochelle within McCulloch County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 12 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

7 since 2003

Regional 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/undetermined6
Natural1

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 August 2003Natural500 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROLLING PLAINS - 9
5 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined150 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 June 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceLOWE
14 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2315
23 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCulloch County

Storms near this place

28 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1995Thunderstorm WindRochelle$3,000The roof of an outbuilding was damaged by high winds.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindRochelle$1,000High winds resulted in the downing of two utility poles.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindRochelle$1,000Large tree limbs downed during high winds.
March 2025HailRochelle-Public reported quarter size hail.
March 2024HailRochelle-Public reported penny size hail.
May 2024HailRochelle-Public reported quarter size hail.
April 2023HailRochelle-The report was from mping.
April 2023HailRochelle-The hail likely melted a little bit, but near ping pong ball size hail.
May 2023HailRochelle-The public reported half dollar size hail.
April 2019HailRochelle-Social media showed a picture of the quarter size hail near Early.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindRochelle-Four to six inch diameter tree limbs were knocked down by the thunderstorm downburst on U.S. Highway 190.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindRochelle-A trained spotter reported damaging thunderstorm winds knocked down trees in and around Rochelle.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindRochelle-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 2013Thunderstorm WindRochelle-The public estimated a 60 MPH wind gust, 12 miles northeast of Brady.
May 2002HailRochelle-Hail up to the size of softballs was reported near Rochelle in western McCulloch County.
April 2023HailRochelle-no account filed
May 2023HailRochelle-no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindRochelle-no account filed
April 2020HailRochelle-no account filed
March 2013HailRochelle-no account filed
June 2010HailRochelle-no account filed
June 2010HailRochelle-no account filed
June 2007HailRochelle-no account filed
May 2003HailRochelle-no account filed
April 2001HailRochelle-no account filed
June 1998HailRochelle-no account filed
January 1998HailRochelle-no account filed
May 1997HailRochelle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McCulloch 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
East Sweden4.6 miles13
Paul Junction5.7 miles13
Selman6.2 miles14
Placid7.1 miles14
Brady9.0 miles13
Niblock11.2 miles12
West Sweden12.6 miles12
Lohn12.6 miles13

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 RochelleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q12834288The 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.