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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1893 USGS Rock Springs quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Sonora quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Sonora quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Roosevelt quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Rocksprings quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Rocksprings quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
24 since 2008Regional 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 use | 17 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011-127 PATTERSON RIDGE |
| 18 September 2011 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011-135 |
| 13 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2010-73 |
| 6 August 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2010-60 |
| 3 August 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2010-55 |
| 2 August 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2010-54 |
| 1 August 2011 | Natural | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRANITE FIRE |
| 31 July 2011 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011-80 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
20 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roosevelt | $10,000 | Winds uprooted trees. |
| October 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roosevelt | $8,000 | Roof blown off of a home. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roosevelt | $8,000 | A severe wind gust tore a roof off of a home. |
| March 2021 | Funnel Cloud | Roosevelt | - | 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 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roosevelt | - | A large tree was uprooted by damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| March 2013 | Hail | Roosevelt | - | A trained spotter reported one inch size hail at the intersection of Ranch Road 1674 and Interstate 10. |
| March 2013 | Hail | Roosevelt | - | A trained spotter reported quarter size hail two miles west of Roosevelt. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Roosevelt | - | Large hail dented the roof of a car. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Roosevelt | - | This hail was the size of a billiard ball. |
| April 2021 | Hail | Roosevelt | - | no account filed |
| April 2021 | Hail | Roosevelt | - | no account filed |
| April 2021 | Hail | Roosevelt | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Roosevelt | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Roosevelt | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Roosevelt | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Funnel Cloud | Roosevelt | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Roosevelt | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Roosevelt | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Roosevelt | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Roosevelt | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buck Hollow | 1.8 miles | 12 | |
| Wilson Place | 6.3 miles | 12 | |
| Cleo | 12.3 miles | 8 | |
| Telegraph | 13.8 miles | 10 | |
| Junction | 15.0 miles | 9 | |
| Segovia | 21.0 miles | 7 | |
| Yates | 25.4 miles | 8 | |
| London | 28.4 miles | 7 |
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 Roosevelt | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7366392 | 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 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.





