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Romayor, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hardin-Rye census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77368. It stands on Nevill Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Romayor quadrangle. It stands 85 feet above sea level.

Romayor within Liberty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

30 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Romayor between 1993 and 2018, burning about 277 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 September 1993Debris and open burning35 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONTROL BURN
18 September 1997Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution19 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 8083
10 September 2012Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 8079
1 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWINDING CREEK
25 August 2011Natural11 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 773
15 August 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Romayor: 6 producers. All of them still produce. 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
Dolen No. 12 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand
Dolen No. 36 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand
Fitch PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lone Star Dolen Pit 36Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rye Dredge & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Liberty County

Storms near this place

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Romayor in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 2003: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2001Thunderstorm WindRomayor$5,000Sheriff's office reported a tree fell on a car in Romayor.
August 1996HailRomayor$5,000no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindRomayor$3,000Tree down.
February 1999HailRomayor$3,000no account filed
October 1998Flash FloodRomayor$2,000Minor street flooding in Romayor.
April 1993Thunderstorm WindRomayor$500KSHN-FM radio station reported a tree blown down across Highway 787 near Romayor.

Every storm recorded in Liberty 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
Big Creek1.0 miles12
Milvid2.5 miles12
Dolen3.4 miles13
Rye3.9 miles12
Big Thicket Creekmore Village4.0 miles12
Marvels4.2 miles12
Mason Lake Estates4.8 miles12
Rayburn5.0 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 RomayorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7362919The 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 1366839. 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.