Rose Hill, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Northwest Harris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77377. The Survey maps it on the Rose Hill quadrangle.

Rose Hill within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1916 USGS Rose Hill quadrangle1:24000
1920 USGS Rose Hill quadrangle1:31680
1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Rose Hill quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Conroe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Rose Hill between 1992 and 2016, burning about 323 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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	28
Arson/incendiarism	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 September 1993	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
29 September 1993	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
29 September 1992	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
2 September 1992	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
11 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 August 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 August 2011	Natural	2.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 754

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Treichel	2.9 miles	14
Tomball	5.0 miles	17
Canyongate	5.2 miles	17
Chappell Ridge	5.5 miles	16
Inwood Park	5.7 miles	16
Westbourne	5.7 miles	17
Northpointe East	6.0 miles	17
Three Lakes East	6.0 miles	17

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 Hill	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7367758	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 1378986. 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.