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Rosslyn, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Houston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77092. It stands on Cole Creek. The Survey maps it on the Houston Heights quadrangle.

Rosslyn within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 15 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

54 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Rosslyn between 1997 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined53
Debris and open burning1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE004
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE013, E067
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE067
10 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceA5,D4,D5,E5,E50,E66,E77,L4,L38,M62,SF57
4 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE038
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceA77, D005, E066, E077, HM1022, SF030
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE013
30 August 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rosslyn: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Vermiculite, Barium-Barite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Chromalloy American CorpBarium-BariteProducer
Vermiculite Products PlantVermiculiteProducer

Every working recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rosslyn in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2012Thunderstorm WindRosslyn$10,000Trees and fences were blown down across neighborhood causing damage to a brick wall in one location near the intersection of Tidwell and Bingle roads.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindRosslyn$8,000Storm winds toppled a tree over onto a home and caused minor roof damage to a school.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindRosslyn$1,000Trees were downed onto a roadway at three locations within Houston.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindRosslyn$1,000A tree was downed across the access road of Highway 290 near West 43rd.
May 2024HailRosslyn-Half dollar to ping pong sized hail was observed near Highway 290.

Every storm recorded in Harris 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
Forest Pine0.2 miles15
Forest West Shopping Center0.5 miles15
Candlelight Oaks Village0.9 miles15
Magnum Manor1.1 miles15
Candlelight1.2 miles15
Lois1.3 miles16
Antoine Forest Estates1.5 miles15
Oak Forest1.5 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1375829. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.