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.
Population over time
3 figuresRoman 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,279 | |
| 2010 | 1,538 | +259 (+20%) |
| 2020 | 1,781 | +243 (+16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Splendora quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Conroe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
157 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 94 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 27 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 395 |
| 5 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 94 |
| 4 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 386 |
| 3 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DEER GLEN |
| 3 September 2000 | Natural | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 375 |
| 29 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 26 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 160 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patton Village | 1.0 miles | 13 | |
| Woodbranch | 1.4 miles | 13 | |
| Keefer | 1.9 miles | 13 | |
| Deerbrook | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Hill and Dale Terrace | 2.4 miles | 13 | |
| New Caney | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Forest Estates | 3.6 miles | 13 | |
| Splendora | 3.7 miles | 13 |
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 Forest | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q519676 | The 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.




