BlockRossville, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Poteet census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78065. The Survey maps it on the Rossville quadrangle. It stands 561 feet above sea level.
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 San Antonio quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Rossville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
275 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 275 fires within 5 miles of Rossville between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,704 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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 | 134 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 65 |
| Smoking | 33 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | UNKNOWN |
| 8 September 2012 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WINERY FIRE |
| 7 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | EICHMAN @ MARSHALL |
| 26 September 2008 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 23 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TOM BROOKS |
| 23 September 2015 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROYAL OAKS 40 |
| 23 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 55 GALINDO LANE |
| 22 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CRESTWAY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rossville in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2008 | Flash Flood | Rossville | $10,000 | The emergency manager reported water in a few homes off of Highway 2504 and Garden Road. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rossville | $5,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 50 mph that blew down a tree onto a car. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rossville | $5,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 50 mph which knocked down numerous tree limbs, peeled back the roof on a shed, and blew the skirting off a trailer home. |
| January 2024 | Hail | Rossville | - | A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail in Poteet. |
| January 2024 | Hail | Rossville | - | A thunderstorm produced hail up to two inches in diameter northwest of Poteet. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Rossville | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Rossville | - | 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.
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 Rossville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q110363010 | 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 1380460. 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.