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.
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
Edwards County Courthouse and Jaillisted 1979
Population over time
2 figuresRocksprings 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,182 | |
| 2020 | 874 | -308 (-26%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1893 USGS Rock Springs quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Sonora quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Sonora quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Rocksprings quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Rocksprings quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Rocksprings quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
18 since 1999Regional 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,000 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OAK CREEK FIRE |
| 19 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WHITEN BURG RANCH |
| 13 August 2006 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 1 August 2008 | Natural | 500 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 July 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1,000 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MILLENIUM RANCH |
| 22 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | EPPERSON PEAR |
| 3 June 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | EDGE ROW 2 |
| 16 June 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | E.C. FAIR |
Storms near this place
10 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1994 | Hail | Rocksprings | $5,000 | Reported by the sheriff's department. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Rocksprings | - | Public reported being hit by baseball-sized hail. |
| May 1996 | Hail | Rocksprings | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Flash Flood | Rocksprings | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Rocksprings | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Rocksprings | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Rocksprings | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Rocksprings | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Rocksprings | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Rocksprings | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hackberry | 11.9 miles | 12 | |
| Barksdale | 22.0 miles | 13 | |
| Carta Valley | 29.2 miles | 7 |
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 Rocksprings | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982592 | 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 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.





