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Ross, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Elm Mott census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76691. The Survey maps it on the Elm Mott quadrangle. 245 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 571 feet above sea level.

Ross within McLennan County

Population over time

3 figures

Ross grew from 228 to 245 between 2000 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
2000228
2010283+55 (+24%)
2020245-38 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

330 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 330 fires within 5 miles of Ross between 2003 and 2020, burning about 994 acres in total. 3 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 burning186
Missing data/not specified/undetermined103
Equipment and vehicle use13
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural3
Smoking2
Other causes1

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 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE BRICKYARD RD 1833
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS-HWY
8 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1941 GRASS/TRACTOR FIRE ROSS RD
8 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
7 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
7 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE-OLD DALLAS RD
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGF158
6 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE-FROSTDALE DRIVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McLennan County

Storms near this place

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ross in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
April 1999Thunderstorm WindRoss$10,000A barn was destroyed and a travel trailer was blown over.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindRoss$4,000Tree damage and minor building damage was reported in and around Ross, Tours, Leory, and Elm Mott. Power outages were also reported.
January 2020Tornado (EF0)Ross$2,000A landspout tornado flipped a boat and damaged roof panels at a property on Fort Graham Road to the west of Ross, and then traveled (likely non-continuously) into Ross where it damaged the metal roof of a carport at a store in town. Video and picture evidence confirmed this small landspout.

Every storm recorded in McLennan 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
Tokio3.4 miles15
Elm Mott3.4 miles18
Wiggins3.6 miles15
Rogers Hill4.3 miles18
Tours5.2 miles14
Gholson5.3 miles18
Leroy5.4 miles18
Northcrest5.7 miles18

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 RossAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978819The 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 1380459. 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.