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Rosharon, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Angleton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77583. The Survey maps it on the Rosharon quadrangle. 1,362 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Rosharon within Brazoria County

Population over time

2 figures

Rosharon grew from 1,152 to 1,362 between 2010 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
20101,152
20201,362+210 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

34 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Rosharon between 2008 and 2012, burning about 68 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2827 PEARCE LANE
5 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
21 August 2011Smoking5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service17102 FM 521
18 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM1462 & CR 606
13 July 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 42 305
1 July 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 48 1 MILE N OF CR 51
20 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 61 @ HWY 288
16 June 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service16400 BLOCK CR 569

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brazoria County

Storms near this place

18 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rosharon in 18 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2007LightningRosharon$50,000Lightning strike to residential home caused home fire.
February 1998Tornado (F0)Rosharon$30,000Tornado destroyed trailer on CR 62 & CR 48. Many trees and powerlines down in the same area.
May 2000Tornado (F0)Rosharon$25,000Barn damaged at FM 521 and FM 1462.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindRosharon$10,000There was widespread power line damage in the vicinity of SH 288 and FM 1462. A tractor trailer was flipped on its side.
March 2002HailRosharon$10,000Quarter sized hail occurred at FM 762 and Meyer Field airport.
October 1998Thunderstorm WindRosharon$10,000Trees and powerlines blown down at CR 51 between HWY 288 & FM 521 and along CR 172.
May 2006HailRosharon$8,000Quarter size hail near FM 521.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindRosharon$7,000A severe thunderstorm downed trees in the Rosharon area.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindRosharon$5,000Trees blown down and cars blown into ditches along HWY 288.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindRosharon$5,000Trees blown down blocking CR 42.
May 1993HailRosharon$5,000The Brazoria County Sheriff Department reported golf ball-size hail in Rosharon.
May 2006HailRosharon$3,000Penny size hail.
January 1998HailRosharon$3,000no account filed
April 2006HailRosharon$2,000no account filed
February 2026Thunderstorm WindRosharon-Mesonet station 141CE143 near Rosharon measured a 65 mph wind gust.
May 2018Funnel CloudRosharon-A funnel cloud was sighted near FM 1462 close to Iowa Colony.
June 2004Funnel CloudRosharon-Several reports of funnel clouds off of FM 521.
January 1995HailRosharon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brazoria 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
Bonney2.5 miles11
Sandy Point2.6 miles11
China Grove2.7 miles11
Lochridge3.8 miles11
English3.9 miles11
Otey6.4 miles11
Chenango6.8 miles11
Orozimbo9.2 miles11

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 RosharonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982679The 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 1366883. 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.