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Roganville, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Kirbyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75956. The Survey maps it on the Roganville quadrangle.

Roganville within Jasper County

On record in Roganville

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

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

205 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 205 fires within 5 miles of Roganville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 991 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 35 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 burning121
Arson/incendiarism35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural5
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
6 September 2005Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 312
30 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceK10-129
30 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 326
3 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresLivingston AreaWOODVILLE - 9097
29 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceK10-124
25 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Roganville: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jasper County

Storms near this place

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roganville in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2003: 2 hail, 1 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
December 2001Thunderstorm WindRoganville$5,000no account filed
November 2003HailRoganville-no account filed
August 1999HailRoganville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jasper 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
Friendship2.0 miles9
Zion Hill4.4 miles9
Keithton4.7 miles9
Eclipse5.1 miles9
Erin5.1 miles9
Bon Ami6.1 miles9
Holly Springs6.8 miles9
Spring Hill7.5 miles13

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 Q122550747The 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 1366823. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.