BlockRockett, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Waxahachie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75152. It stands on Sanger Branch. The Survey maps it on the Waxahachie quadrangle. It stands 492 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 10 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.
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Waxahachie quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Corsicana quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
57 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Rockett between 2005 and 2013, burning about 812 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 21 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 326 IKE RD |
| 1 August 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MAIN ST. FIRE |
| 6 July 2013 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 013-120 |
| 5 July 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | RING RD |
| 27 July 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CACTUS ROAD |
| 26 July 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CATUS RD |
| 25 July 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | RING ROAD |
| 24 July 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1105 MAREE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rockett in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 3 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2025 | Flash Flood | Rockett | $10,000 | Emergency management reported a water rescue at the 900 block of Farrar Road, about 1.5 miles southeast of Rockett. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Rockett | - | Report received via mPING. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Rockett | - | Reported via mPing. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Rockett | - | Quarter size hail fell about 4 miles northeast of Waxahachie. |
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.
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 Rockett | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7355202 | 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 1378973. 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.