Rockhouse, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Industry census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78950. The Survey maps it on the Industry quadrangle.

Rockhouse within Austin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1919 USGS Fayettsville quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Industry quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Eagle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Rockhouse between 2002 and 2013, burning about 32 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
7 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SAN FELIPE RD.
4 March 2002	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CENTRAL TX - 15
20 February 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 954 FIRE
16 February 2013	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SCHROEDER RD GRASS FIRE
2 December 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MUTUAL AID
15 October 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	UNATTENDED CONTROLLED BURN
26 January 2011	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE (MUTUAL AID)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Austin 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
Rock House	0.0 miles	9
Post Oak Point	2.5 miles	9
Krebsville	2.8 miles	9
Industry	3.0 miles	9
Shelby	5.0 miles	7
New Ulm	5.7 miles	10
Welcome	6.0 miles	10
Bleiblerville	6.7 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034855. 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.