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Rosewood, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Gilmer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75644. The Survey maps it on the Thomas quadrangle.

Rosewood within Upshur County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

504 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 504 fires within 5 miles of Rosewood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,363 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 23 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 burning315
Missing data/not specified/undetermined100
Equipment and vehicle use26
Arson/incendiarism23
Power generation/transmission/distribution19
Natural12
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2005Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 352
8 September 2015Natural6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service15-0282
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1002 COMMAND
4 September 2016Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 556 TREE FIRE
4 September 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service14-0291
4 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 49 COMMAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Upshur County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rosewood: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Unnamed PitClayProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Upshur County

Storms near this place

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rosewood in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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 1998Tornado (F1)Rosewood$50,000Tornado began in Harmony on the southern end of an open field cattle ranch, moved northward across the ranch snapping about 3 dozen dead pine trees, moved across a large insulated storage shed, destroying the shed and its contents. It then destroyed a power pole which knocked out power to about 25 thousand customers, moved across Hwy 154 lifting a westbound Ford Escort about 50 feet along the road. The Escort was speared by a 2X4 through the drivers rear passenger window and also a 2X4 was stuck through the car roof just behind the driver seat. The tornado then moved across the Harmony old High School peeling back asphalt shingling and ripping a chain link hurricane fence down. A second car was crushed by a snapped pine tree. It then moved into the woods and dissipated. Tornado was said to have a test tube shape by 3 eyewitnesses including an elementary school teacher who watched the entire event from her classroom. A rancher and ranch hand who watched the event from a barn about 50 yards from the tornado path. It appears the tornado was a landspout by definition.
January 1995Thunderstorm WindRosewood$10,000High winds damaged the roof of the Harmony School.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindRosewood-Numerous trees were downed across Western Upshur County.
March 2018Thunderstorm WindRosewood-Trees were blown down on Highway 154 in the Harmony community.
January 1999Thunderstorm WindRosewood-Trees and powerlines down.
May 2003HailRosewood-no account filed
March 2000HailRosewood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Upshur 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
Kelsey2.1 miles13
Enon3.1 miles13
Rhonesboro3.2 miles14
Summerfield3.6 miles13
Latch3.8 miles13
Grice4.3 miles13
Enoch4.8 miles12
Shady Grove5.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378988. 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.