Roddy, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cedar Creek Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75147. The Survey maps it on the Prairieville quadrangle.

Roddy within Van Zandt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1920 USGS Kemp quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Kemp quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Prairieville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Corsicana quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

46 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Roddy between 1995 and 2018, burning about 572 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Equipment and vehicle use	4
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
11 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
11 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	85 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 August 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
26 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2013-163
23 August 2006	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
19 August 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
11 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Zandt County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roddy in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Roddy	$800,000	Nearly 100 homes and several outbuildings were damaged across mainly the southern half of Van Zandt County from two strong supercells. These homes were damaged by either a tornado in the same region, damaging downburst winds, and/or RFD winds. It cannot be determined how many of the homes were damaged by the tornado and how many by the RFD or downburst winds. In addition, numerous trees were also knocked down and several were blocking roadways. Power lines were also down as well.
May 2019	Tornado (EF2)	Roddy	$500,000	A tornado developed near the community of Whitton, then moved northeast, damaging several homes in its path. The most extensive damage was found on Van Zandt CR 2502 and Van Zandt CR 2501, where the EF-2 determination was made. Homes experienced significant roof loss, and a manufactured home was destroyed and tossed well away from its foundation. The tornado then continued moving northeast, easily traceable from continuous tree damage along its path. This tornado then occluded and dissipated as it approached the City of Canton. Maximum winds with the tornado were estimated at 125 mph.
June 2010	Flash Flood	Roddy	$50,000	Farm-to-Market Road 47 was underwater one mile north of Highway 198, County Road 308 was washed away two miles east of Highway 198, and Farm-to-Market Road 316 was closed due to high water at the intersection of Highway 198.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Roddy	$20,000	Ground survey and radar analysis indicated straight-line winds along a bowing segment caused a long swath of 75-85 mph winds across southeastern Van Zandt County. In this area, trees were damaged, metal structures/barns were damaged or destroyed, & the roofs of some homes were damaged. The damage swath was approximately 1.75-2.5 miles wide across the center line of this entry.

Every storm recorded in Van Zandt 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
Odom	2.7 miles	11
Phalba	3.1 miles	13
Whitton	5.0 miles	13
Four Mile Prairie	5.1 miles	11
Wise	6.6 miles	10
Jackson	7.2 miles	13
Denman Crossroads	7.8 miles	13
Watkins	8.4 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378978. 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.