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Rocksprings, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Rocksprings North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78880. The Survey maps it on the Rocksprings quadrangle. 874 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,402 feet above sea level.

Rocksprings within Edwards County

On record in Rocksprings

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Rocksprings fell from 1,182 to 874 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,182
2020874-308 (-26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

18 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Rocksprings between 1999 and 2014, burning about 4,306 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
5 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,000 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOAK CREEK FIRE
19 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWHITEN BURG RANCH
13 August 2006Smoking5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 August 2008Natural500 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 July 2005Equipment and vehicle use1,000 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMILLENIUM RANCH
22 July 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceEPPERSON PEAR
3 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceEDGE ROW 2
16 June 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE.C. FAIR

Every fire recorded in Edwards County

Storms near this place

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rocksprings in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 1996: 9 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 1994HailRocksprings$5,000Reported by the sheriff's department.
June 1994HailRocksprings-Public reported being hit by baseball-sized hail.
May 1996HailRocksprings-no account filed
May 1996Flash FloodRocksprings-no account filed
May 1996HailRocksprings-no account filed
April 1996HailRocksprings-no account filed
April 1996HailRocksprings-no account filed
April 1996HailRocksprings-no account filed
April 1996HailRocksprings-no account filed
June 1995HailRocksprings-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Edwards 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
Hackberry11.9 miles12
Barksdale22.0 miles13
Carta Valley29.2 miles7

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 RockspringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982592The 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 1345423. 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.