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Roosevelt, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Junction Northwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76849. It lies near Deep Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Roosevelt quadrangle. It stands 1,909 feet above sea level.

Roosevelt within Kimble County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

24 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Roosevelt between 2008 and 2018, burning about 103 acres in total. 4 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 use17
Natural4
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
4 September 2011Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2011-127 PATTERSON RIDGE
18 September 2011Natural3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-135
13 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2010-73
6 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2010-60
3 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use40 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2010-55
2 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2010-54
1 August 2011Natural6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRANITE FIRE
31 July 2011Natural3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-80

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kimble County

Storms near this place

20 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roosevelt in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 14 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud. 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
September 1997Thunderstorm WindRoosevelt$10,000Winds uprooted trees.
October 2004Thunderstorm WindRoosevelt$8,000Roof blown off of a home.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindRoosevelt$8,000A severe wind gust tore a roof off of a home.
March 2021Funnel CloudRoosevelt-Law enforcement reported a storm chaser located 4 miles south southeast of Roosevelt reported two funnel clouds south of Roosevelt. They were never seen touching the ground.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindRoosevelt-A large tree was uprooted by damaging thunderstorm winds.
March 2013HailRoosevelt-A trained spotter reported one inch size hail at the intersection of Ranch Road 1674 and Interstate 10.
March 2013HailRoosevelt-A trained spotter reported quarter size hail two miles west of Roosevelt.
April 2011HailRoosevelt-Large hail dented the roof of a car.
April 2011HailRoosevelt-This hail was the size of a billiard ball.
April 2021HailRoosevelt-no account filed
April 2021HailRoosevelt-no account filed
April 2021HailRoosevelt-no account filed
April 2015HailRoosevelt-no account filed
April 2015HailRoosevelt-no account filed
May 2015HailRoosevelt-no account filed
April 2011Funnel CloudRoosevelt-no account filed
April 2011HailRoosevelt-no account filed
April 2011HailRoosevelt-no account filed
June 2005HailRoosevelt-no account filed
May 2001HailRoosevelt-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kimble 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
Buck Hollow1.8 miles12
Wilson Place6.3 miles12
Cleo12.3 miles8
Telegraph13.8 miles10
Junction15.0 miles9
Segovia21.0 miles7
Yates25.4 miles8
London28.4 miles7

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 RooseveltAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7366392The 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 1366846. 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.