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.
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
- State Highway 34 Bridge at the Trinity Riverlisted 1996
Population over time
2 figuresRosser 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 332 | |
| 2020 | 301 | -31 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Rosser quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Corsicana quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
27 since 2005Regional 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 burning | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 45 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | JONES RD/FERRIS |
| 21 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 4077 |
| 28 August 2013 | Natural | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2013-165 |
| 24 August 2011 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BAKER FIRE |
| 8 July 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 July 2013 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2013-110 |
| 30 July 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 4083 |
| 29 July 2008 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2014 | Hail | Rosser | $6,000 | The Kaufman County Emergency Manager reported golf ball sized hail near Rosser. |
| January 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rosser | $5,000 | Emergency management reported that the roof was blown off of the Cottonwood Community Center. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rosser | $500 | Thunderstorm winds blew down trees. |
| February 2017 | Hail | Rosser | - | Trained Spotter report quarter inch hail near FM 1390 and HWY 34, approximately 2.45 ENE of Rosser. |
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Rosser | - | Amateur radio operators reported a brief tornado near Cottonwood. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rosser | - | Broadcast media reported trees and power lines down in the town of Rosser, TX. |
| January 1998 | Hail | Rosser | - | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rosser | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cottonwood | 3.4 miles | 9 | |
| Scurry | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Peeltown | 5.5 miles | 9 | |
| Grays Prairie | 5.5 miles | 10 | |
| Warsaw | 6.3 miles | 11 | |
| Warsaw Center | 6.7 miles | 11 | |
| Lively | 7.8 miles | 10 | |
| Oak Grove | 8.7 miles | 10 |
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 Rosser | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3288145 | 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 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.



