Rocky Point Center, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Emory census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75440. It stands on Glade Creek. The Survey maps it on the Emory South quadrangle.

Rocky Point Center within Rains County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1956 USGS Emory quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1980 USGS Emory South quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

18 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Rocky Point Center between 2004 and 2020, burning about 260 acres in total. 1 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	14
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
20 September 2010	Natural	35 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 173
5 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ASSIST WILDLAND FIRE
16 August 2004	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 108
28 July 2008	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	NORTH BRANCH - 134
20 July 2008	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
18 July 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
14 July 2009	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY 19
3 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rains 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
Smyrna	2.0 miles	14
Emory	2.2 miles	14
Willow Springs	2.7 miles	14
Dunbar	2.9 miles	14
Ginger	3.4 miles	15
Prospect	3.6 miles	14
Shady Grove	4.4 miles	16
Flats	5.3 miles	14

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.

Wikidata item Q122563319

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 1877615. 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.