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Roeder, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Cookville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75455. The Survey maps it on the Cason quadrangle.

Roeder within Titus County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

274 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 274 fires within 5 miles of Roeder between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,384 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 10 were 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 burning194
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism10
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Natural7
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
4 September 2002Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 179
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 363
4 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use160 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service64 COUNTY ROAD
29 September 2008Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILLIAMS BRUSH PILE
24 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service92314

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Titus County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roeder in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 2010Thunderstorm WindRoeder$25,000Trees were downed with one having fallen on a mobile home near Lake Welch. There were no report of injuries.
March 2026HailRoeder-Quarter size hail reported in rural Titus County southeast of Mount Pleasant.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindRoeder-Trees and power lines were downed on County Road 4710.
March 2014HailRoeder-Hail covered the ground.
May 2012HailRoeder-Hail was reported 5 miles southeast of Mount Pleasant, Texas.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindRoeder-Trees downed in the Chapel Hill area on CR. 4875.
April 1998HailRoeder-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Titus 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
Center Grove3.3 miles9
Cookville6.9 miles9
Mount Pleasant7.4 miles10
Old Union7.5 miles10
Liberty Hill9.9 miles10
Farmers Academy9.9 miles8
Lone Star10.4 miles9
Gladewater11.8 miles10

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 Q122594446The 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 2034838. 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.