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.
Population over time
2 figuresRosharon 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,152 | |
| 2020 | 1,362 | +210 (+18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1943 USGS Rosharon quadrangle1:31680
- 1943 USGS Rosharon quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Rosharon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Angleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
34 since 2008Regional 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 burning | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.2 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2827 PEARCE LANE |
| 5 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 21 August 2011 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 17102 FM 521 |
| 18 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM1462 & CR 606 |
| 13 July 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 42 305 |
| 1 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 48 1 MILE N OF CR 51 |
| 20 June 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 61 @ HWY 288 |
| 16 June 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 16400 BLOCK CR 569 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
18 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2007 | Lightning | Rosharon | $50,000 | Lightning strike to residential home caused home fire. |
| February 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Rosharon | $30,000 | Tornado destroyed trailer on CR 62 & CR 48. Many trees and powerlines down in the same area. |
| May 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Rosharon | $25,000 | Barn damaged at FM 521 and FM 1462. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rosharon | $10,000 | There was widespread power line damage in the vicinity of SH 288 and FM 1462. A tractor trailer was flipped on its side. |
| March 2002 | Hail | Rosharon | $10,000 | Quarter sized hail occurred at FM 762 and Meyer Field airport. |
| October 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rosharon | $10,000 | Trees and powerlines blown down at CR 51 between HWY 288 & FM 521 and along CR 172. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Rosharon | $8,000 | Quarter size hail near FM 521. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rosharon | $7,000 | A severe thunderstorm downed trees in the Rosharon area. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rosharon | $5,000 | Trees blown down and cars blown into ditches along HWY 288. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rosharon | $5,000 | Trees blown down blocking CR 42. |
| May 1993 | Hail | Rosharon | $5,000 | The Brazoria County Sheriff Department reported golf ball-size hail in Rosharon. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Rosharon | $3,000 | Penny size hail. |
| January 1998 | Hail | Rosharon | $3,000 | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Rosharon | $2,000 | no account filed |
| February 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rosharon | - | Mesonet station 141CE143 near Rosharon measured a 65 mph wind gust. |
| May 2018 | Funnel Cloud | Rosharon | - | A funnel cloud was sighted near FM 1462 close to Iowa Colony. |
| June 2004 | Funnel Cloud | Rosharon | - | Several reports of funnel clouds off of FM 521. |
| January 1995 | Hail | Rosharon | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bonney | 2.5 miles | 11 | |
| Sandy Point | 2.6 miles | 11 | |
| China Grove | 2.7 miles | 11 | |
| Lochridge | 3.8 miles | 11 | |
| English | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Otey | 6.4 miles | 11 | |
| Chenango | 6.8 miles | 11 | |
| Orozimbo | 9.2 miles | 11 |
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 Rosharon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982679 | 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 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.






