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Roman Forest, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Southeast Montgomery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77357. The Survey maps it on the Splendora quadrangle. 1,781 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 105 feet above sea level.

Roman Forest within Montgomery County

Population over time

3 figures

Roman Forest grew from 1,279 to 1,781 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20001,279
20101,538+259 (+20%)
20201,781+243 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

157 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Roman Forest between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,931 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 27 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 burning94
Arson/incendiarism27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
7 September 2000Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 395
5 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 94
4 September 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 386
3 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDEER GLEN
3 September 2000Natural30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 375
29 September 1994Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2002Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 160

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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
Patton Village1.0 miles13
Woodbranch1.4 miles13
Keefer1.9 miles13
Deerbrook2.3 miles13
Hill and Dale Terrace2.4 miles13
New Caney3.1 miles13
Forest Estates3.6 miles13
Splendora3.7 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.

Wikipedia article on Roman ForestAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q519676The 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 1388597. 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.