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Round Top, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Round Top census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78954. It stands on Shaw Creek. The Survey maps it on the Round Top quadrangle. 87 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 440 feet above sea level.

Round Top within Fayette County

On record in Round Top

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 2 records

Population over time

3 figures

Round Top grew from 77 to 87 between 2000 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
200077
201090+13 (+17%)
202087-3 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 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.

What the histories say of this town

2,490 words

1 chapter about Round Top from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

ChapterFrom Length
Fayette County, Her History and Her PeopleFayette County, Her History and Her People (1902)2,490 words

Fires near this place

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Round Top between 1998 and 2020, burning about 106 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
5 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTRAL TX - 39
4 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROUND TOP ROAD
23 June 2008Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 June 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTRAL TX - 29

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Round Top in 1 storm report in 2008: 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
February 2008HailRound Top-The general public reported penny size hail near the town of Round Top.

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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
Winedale3.3 miles7
Warrenton3.8 miles7
Walhalla4.4 miles8
Waldeck5.1 miles8
Haw Creek (historical)5.4 miles7
Roznov5.6 miles11
Carmine5.8 miles7
Nechanitz7.1 miles8

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 Round TopAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982031The 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 1380945. 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.