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Rosston, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Valley View census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76263. It stands on Coons Creek. The Survey maps it on the Greenwood quadrangle. It stands 853 feet above sea level.

Rosston within Cooke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

71 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Rosston between 2005 and 2020, burning about 817 acres in total. 5 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 burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use18
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2009Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
28 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROSSTON HAY BALES
20 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTUMP BURN
19 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBINGHAM RD
14 September 2019Debris and open burning250 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDOUBLE O RANCH CONTROL BURN
4 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRAILER AXLE GRASSFIRE
3 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
3 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cooke County

Storms near this place

14 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rosston in 14 storm reports between 2001 and 2015: 5 hail, 4 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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
May 2015Flash FloodRosston$100,000Emergency management reported that numerous water rescues were underway across the county and strongly advised against travel through the area.
September 2010Flash FloodRosston$100,000Several county roads were closed in the southern portions of the county due to flood waters. Farm-to-Market Roads 678 and 2896 were also closed. One home suffered flood damage.
December 2015FloodRosston$10,000Multiple county roads were closed across the county due to flood waters. The service road along Interstate 35 near Valley View was also closed due to high water. Many areas saw improvement of the flood waters on the 27th but up to 15 areas were still closed off on the morning of the 28th according to the local newspaper.
February 2001Thunderstorm WindRosston$10,000Power lines and outbuildings were blown down. Houses were unroofed.
May 2011HailRosston$10,000no account filed
May 2015FloodRosston-Some roads across the county remained closed due to flooding.
May 2015FloodRosston-Significant flooding of roads, interstates, highways, creeks, streams, and low-lying areas continued for over 12 hours after the heavy rain had ended.
May 2015FloodRosston-Several roads remained flooded across the county after earlier heavy rains.
March 2013HailRosston-Amateur radio spotters reported quarter sized hail near Rosston.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindRosston-Sixty MPH winds were measured with a hand-held anemometer.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindRosston-The county Emergency Manager reported many trees were knocked down across the county.
May 2010HailRosston-Nickel to quarter size hail fell in the town of Rosston.
May 2010HailRosston-Penny size hail covered the ground 5 miles east of the town of Rosston.
May 2010HailRosston-Penny size hail was reported in Rosston.

Every storm recorded in Cooke 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
Prairie Point1.9 miles8
Leo3.3 miles8
Freemound5.6 miles12
Hood6.4 miles13
Era8.2 miles8
Myra11.8 miles13
Lois11.9 miles8
Muenster12.1 miles13

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 RosstonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14711289The 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 1382657. 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.