Rockledge, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Clarendon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79226. The Survey maps it on the Rockledge quadrangle.

Rockledge within Donley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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.

1954 USGS Amarillo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Amarillo quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Rockledge quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Shamrock quadrangle1:100000
1998 USGS Rockledge quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

38 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Rockledge between 2002 and 2020, burning about 24,308 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
6 August 2011	Natural	22 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	KADE MATTHEWS RANCH FIRE
3 August 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MM 124 INTERSTATE 40
27 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	INTERSTATE 40 MM 127
13 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY 70 & INTERSTATE 40
30 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	INTERSTATE 40 MM 125
26 July 2014	Smoking	7.5 acres	Cibola National Forest	MCCLELLAN LAKE
26 July 2002	Power generation/transmission/distribution	10 acres	Cibola National Forest	MCCLELLAN CREEK
25 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	INTERSTATE 40 MM 126

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Jericho

Every fire recorded in Donley County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rockledge in 2 storm reports in 2007: 2 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
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Rockledge	-	The high winds snapped off cottonwood tree limbs which were eight inch in diameter.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Rockledge	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Donley 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
Jericho	4.7 miles	6
Howardwick	10.6 miles	7
Ashtola	16.6 miles	7
Clarendon	16.8 miles	8
Lelia Lake	19.1 miles	8
Hedley	22.9 miles	8
McKnight	23.1 miles	8
Giles	27.5 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1382636. 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.