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Rose City, Texas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Vidor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77662. It stands on Tiger Creek. The Survey maps it on the Beaumont East quadrangle. 326 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Rose City within Orange County

Population over time

3 figures

Rose City fell from 519 to 326 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.

YearPeople Change
2000519
2010502-17 (-3%)
2020326-176 (-35%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Rose City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 746 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 21 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 burning24
Arson/incendiarism21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
27 September 1999Arson/incendiarism25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 45
10 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 284
4 August 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 465
27 August 2017Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTEST
7 July 2012Fireworks1.0 acresLivingston AreaWOODVILLE - 9072
21 July 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 412

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Rose City: 8 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Bromine. 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
Beaumont PlantBromineProducer
Rose City PitSilicaProducer
Rose City Sand PitSilicaProducer
Beeco PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand
L O Block Sand CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Larry Tinkle Sand CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rose City PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rose City in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2017: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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
August 2016Thunderstorm WindRose City$40,000The media relayed reports of one trailer flipped and another crushed by a falling tree near Vidor.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindRose City$5,000no account filed
February 2011Thunderstorm WindRose City$2,000Power lines were blown down in Rose City.
August 2017FloodRose City-River levels hit record levels along the lower Neches and the Sabine hit the 2nd highest stage at Orange. This kept water in sections of Orange County into early September.
March 2015Flash FloodRose City-Heavy rain from thunderstorms trained across Orange County for multiple hours. This flooded and closed several roadways around Bridge City.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindRose City-A tree blew down across Old Highway 90 in Rose City.

Every storm recorded in Orange 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
Lawson Crossing2.7 miles15
Vidor2.8 miles15
Connell3.0 miles16
Lakewood4.3 miles13
Maple Crest Acres4.4 miles13
Pine Forest5.5 miles15
Echo Forest6.0 miles15
Terry6.3 miles16

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 Rose CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982797The 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 1378985. 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.