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Rockne, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cedar Creek-Red Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78602. It lies near Lower Cedar Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Red Rock quadrangle. It stands 476 feet above sea level.

Rockne within Bastrop County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

65 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Rockne between 1993 and 2018, burning about 416 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 burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWATTERSON
7 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTEPHANIE LN
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGOERTZ
12 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWATTERSON ROAD FRIE
1 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFOHN
1 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILHELM WAY
15 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bastrop County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rockne in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2017Thunderstorm WindRockne-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that knocked down several trees.
August 2017Flash FloodRockne-Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Harvey produced flash flooding leading to a water rescue near Rockne.
April 2015HailRockne-Golf ball size hail was reported near County Road 212 southwest of Clearview.
April 2015HailRockne-Golf ball size hail was reported by the Bastrop emergency manager near County Road 232 northeast of the town of Rockne.
May 2011HailRockne-no account filed
April 1997HailRockne-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bastrop 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
Watterson2.3 miles11
Red Rock2.6 miles11
Bateman3.9 miles11
Jordan5.5 miles11
Clearview6.0 miles17
Shiloh (historical)7.1 miles15
Cedar Creek7.3 miles17
Hills Prairie8.3 miles17

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 RockneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7355512The 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 1366735. 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.