Rock Island, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Liberty-Dayton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77575. The Survey maps it on the Daisetta quadrangle.

Rock Island within Liberty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1943 USGS Liberty quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Daisetta quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Daisetta quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

16 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Rock Island between 1992 and 2013, burning about 283 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	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
17 September 2013	Fireworks	3.1 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	8075
1 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	8062
23 August 1999	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 August 1999	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 March 2000	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 250
25 March 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	8023
14 March 2013	Debris and open burning	21 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	8014
1 March 2013	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	8006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rock Island: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Halite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Hull Salt Dome	Halite	Occurrence	1908

Every working recorded in Liberty 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Woodson	1.4 miles	13
Raywood	2.4 miles	13
Ames	2.5 miles	13
Frige Settlement	3.1 miles	13
Moore Settlement	3.6 miles	13
Atascosito	3.6 miles	13
Daisetta	4.3 miles	13
Cow Island	4.5 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378967. 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.