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.
Population over time
3 figuresRoss 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 228 | |
| 2010 | 283 | +55 (+24%) |
| 2020 | 245 | -38 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 18 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.
- 1892 USGS Waco quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1920 USGS Waco quadrangle1:125000
- 1931 USGS Elm Mott quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Elm Mott quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Waco quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
330 since 2003Regional 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 burning | 186 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 103 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSH FIRE BRICKYARD RD 1833 |
| 9 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS-HWY |
| 8 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1941 GRASS/TRACTOR FIRE ROSS RD |
| 8 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 7 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 7 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASSFIRE-OLD DALLAS RD |
| 6 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GF158 |
| 6 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASSFIRE-FROSTDALE DRIVE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ross | $10,000 | A barn was destroyed and a travel trailer was blown over. |
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ross | $4,000 | Tree damage and minor building damage was reported in and around Ross, Tours, Leory, and Elm Mott. Power outages were also reported. |
| January 2020 | Tornado (EF0) | Ross | $2,000 | A 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. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tokio | 3.4 miles | 15 | |
| Elm Mott | 3.4 miles | 18 | |
| Wiggins | 3.6 miles | 15 | |
| Rogers Hill | 4.3 miles | 18 | |
| Tours | 5.2 miles | 14 | |
| Gholson | 5.3 miles | 18 | |
| Leroy | 5.4 miles | 18 | |
| Northcrest | 5.7 miles | 18 |
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 | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q978819 | 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 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.






