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Rogers, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Jim Ned census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79541. The Survey maps it on the Lawn quadrangle.

Rogers within Taylor County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

35 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Rogers between 2005 and 2019, burning about 241 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning6
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2009Natural30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 135
10 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2006Natural3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE - FM 614 & CR 156
12 July 2005Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor 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
Lawn4.4 miles13
Tuscola6.4 miles12
Ovalo6.5 miles12
Guion10.0 miles12
Buffalo Gap10.6 miles15
Potosi10.8 miles14
Bradshaw12.4 miles12
Wylie14.5 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378981. 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.