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.
Population over time
3 figuresRose 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 519 | |
| 2010 | 502 | -17 (-3%) |
| 2020 | 326 | -176 (-35%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 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.
- 1926 USGS Vidor quadrangle1:24000
- 1932 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Beaumont East quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Beaumont East quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Beaumont East quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
62 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 24 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 21 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 12 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 45 |
| 10 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 August 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 284 |
| 4 August 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 465 |
| 27 August 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TEST |
| 7 July 2012 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Livingston Area | WOODVILLE - 9072 |
| 21 July 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 412 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumont Plant | Bromine | Producer | ||
| Rose City Pit | Silica | Producer | ||
| Rose City Sand Pit | Silica | Producer | ||
| Beeco Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Sand | |
| L O Block Sand Co | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Larry Tinkle Sand Co | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Rose City Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Sand | |
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Sand |
Storms near this place
6 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rose City | $40,000 | The media relayed reports of one trailer flipped and another crushed by a falling tree near Vidor. |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rose City | $5,000 | no account filed |
| February 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rose City | $2,000 | Power lines were blown down in Rose City. |
| August 2017 | Flood | Rose 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 2015 | Flash Flood | Rose City | - | Heavy rain from thunderstorms trained across Orange County for multiple hours. This flooded and closed several roadways around Bridge City. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rose City | - | A tree blew down across Old Highway 90 in Rose City. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawson Crossing | 2.7 miles | 15 | |
| Vidor | 2.8 miles | 15 | |
| Connell | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Lakewood | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Maple Crest Acres | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Pine Forest | 5.5 miles | 15 | |
| Echo Forest | 6.0 miles | 15 | |
| Terry | 6.3 miles | 16 |
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 City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982797 | 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 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.








