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Romney, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Rising Star census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76471. The Survey maps it on the Union Center quadrangle.

Romney within Eastland County

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

37 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Romney between 2006 and 2020, burning about 2,584 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
11 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCACTUS JULE
28 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDLIFE RIVER
5 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined174 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTIDAL WAVE
13 July 2009Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBERRY
12 July 2013Equipment and vehicle use130 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSIMPSON II FIRE
11 July 2013Equipment and vehicle use50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSIMPSON
5 June 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eastland County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Romney in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 hail. 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
November 2008HailRomney-The Eastland Police Department reported penny-size hail about 4 to 5 inches deep along a 1.5 mile stretch of Highway 183 near Romney.

Every storm recorded in Eastland 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
Mountain Top1.1 miles13
Pleasant Hill2.0 miles13
Union Center4.9 miles13
Branton5.0 miles13
Nimrod5.5 miles9
Carbon7.1 miles12
Mangum7.5 miles12
Okra8.0 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 RomneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7363263The 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 1378984. 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.

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.