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Ross City, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Big Spring census division. The Survey maps it on the Forsan quadrangle.

Ross City within Howard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

96 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Ross City between 2005 and 2020, burning about 10,415 acres in total. 5 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution34
Equipment and vehicle use28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Debris and open burning7
Natural5
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
8 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 821
6 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution21 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3 MILES EAST OF SOUTH HWY 87 ON FM 821
30 August 2012Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceS 87 AND 461
28 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMLK ASSIST BSFD
24 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDOUGHTITT RANCH
24 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service821
21 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 461
14 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCDONALD RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Howard County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ross City in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 hail. 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 1995HailRoss City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Howard 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
Forsan3.3 miles11
Otis Chalk3.4 miles11
South Haven11.1 miles12
Elbow11.8 miles10
Midway12.7 miles10
Sand Springs13.1 miles10
Webb Village13.2 miles12
Ziler13.3 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 Ross CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q85797945The 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 2034914. 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.