Roxton, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Roxton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75477. It stands on Denton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Roxton quadrangle. 548 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 512 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresRoxton fell from 694 to 548 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 694 | |
| 2010 | 650 | -44 (-6%) |
| 2020 | 548 | -102 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 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.
- 1903 USGS Paris quadrangle1:125000
- 1948 USGS Paris quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Paris quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Roxton quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
5 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Roxton between 2013 and 2014, burning about 108 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 August 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 17 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 6267 |
| 16 July 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR3505 |
| 21 June 2013 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROXTON062113B |
| 3 March 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BROOKSTON |
| 6 January 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Roxton: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Limestone, General | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
22 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roxton in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 13 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roxton | $5,000 | A barn was damaged by high winds. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roxton | $5,000 | A vacant building was blown down by high winds. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Roxton | $4,000 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roxton | $3,000 | Several trees were blown down and one fell on a metal shed. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roxton | $2,000 | A large tree was uprooted and block the intersection of FM 137 and Honey Grove Street. Power lines were also blown down. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roxton | $1,000 | Trees and limbs blown down. |
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roxton | $1,000 | Trees were uprooted by high winds. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Roxton | - | Penny size hail was reported near Roxton via social media. |
| November 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roxton | - | Lamar County Sheriff's Department reported 2 trees down in the town of Roxton, TX. |
| March 2012 | Hail | Roxton | - | Hail stones ranging from the size of pennies to half dollars were reported in the town of Roxton for several minutes. |
| July 2005 | Hail | Roxton | - | Hail ranging in size from quarter to ping-pong ball reported. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roxton | - | Large limbs broken off trees and outdoor furniture blown several hundred feet. |
| April 1995 | Hail | Roxton | - | Large trees were blown down by high winds. |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roxton | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Roxton | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Roxton | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Roxton | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Roxton | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Roxton | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Roxton | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Roxton | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Roxton | - | 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 Roxton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982172 | 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 1366983. 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.







