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Rosser, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Crandall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75158. The Survey maps it on the Rosser quadrangle. 301 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 361 feet above sea level.

Rosser within Kaufman County

On record in Rosser

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Rosser fell from 332 to 301 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
2010332
2020301-31 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

27 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Rosser between 2005 and 2019, burning about 440 acres in total. 2 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 burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural2
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
4 September 2011Debris and open burning45 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJONES RD/FERRIS
21 September 2017Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4077
28 August 2013Natural15 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2013-165
24 August 2011Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBAKER FIRE
8 July 2008Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2013Debris and open burning2.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2013-110
30 July 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4083
29 July 2008Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kaufman County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rosser in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2017: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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 2014HailRosser$6,000The Kaufman County Emergency Manager reported golf ball sized hail near Rosser.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindRosser$5,000Emergency management reported that the roof was blown off of the Cottonwood Community Center.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindRosser$500Thunderstorm winds blew down trees.
February 2017HailRosser-Trained Spotter report quarter inch hail near FM 1390 and HWY 34, approximately 2.45 ENE of Rosser.
May 2015Tornado (EF0)Rosser-Amateur radio operators reported a brief tornado near Cottonwood.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindRosser-Broadcast media reported trees and power lines down in the town of Rosser, TX.
January 1998HailRosser-no account filed
October 1996Thunderstorm WindRosser-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kaufman 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
Cottonwood3.4 miles9
Scurry5.5 miles11
Peeltown5.5 miles9
Grays Prairie5.5 miles10
Warsaw6.3 miles11
Warsaw Center6.7 miles11
Lively7.8 miles10
Oak Grove8.7 miles10

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 RosserAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3288145The 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 1345621. 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.