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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.

Roxton within Lamar County

Population over time

3 figures

Roxton 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.

YearPeople Change
2000694
2010650-44 (-6%)
2020548-102 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

5 since 2013

Regional 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 use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
27 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use17 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6267
16 July 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR3505
21 June 2013Debris and open burning60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROXTON062113B
3 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBROOKSTON
6 January 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lamar County

Storms near this place

22 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2005Thunderstorm WindRoxton$5,000A barn was damaged by high winds.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindRoxton$5,000A vacant building was blown down by high winds.
April 2011HailRoxton$4,000no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindRoxton$3,000Several trees were blown down and one fell on a metal shed.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindRoxton$2,000A large tree was uprooted and block the intersection of FM 137 and Honey Grove Street. Power lines were also blown down.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindRoxton$1,000Trees and limbs blown down.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindRoxton$1,000Trees were uprooted by high winds.
April 2020HailRoxton-Penny size hail was reported near Roxton via social media.
November 2015Thunderstorm WindRoxton-Lamar County Sheriff's Department reported 2 trees down in the town of Roxton, TX.
March 2012HailRoxton-Hail stones ranging from the size of pennies to half dollars were reported in the town of Roxton for several minutes.
July 2005HailRoxton-Hail ranging in size from quarter to ping-pong ball reported.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindRoxton-Large limbs broken off trees and outdoor furniture blown several hundred feet.
April 1995HailRoxton-Large trees were blown down by high winds.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindRoxton-no account filed
May 2003HailRoxton-no account filed
May 2003HailRoxton-no account filed
May 2003HailRoxton-no account filed
April 1996HailRoxton-no account filed
May 1995HailRoxton-no account filed
May 1995HailRoxton-no account filed
May 1995HailRoxton-no account filed
July 1995HailRoxton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lamar 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
Noble3.6 miles12
Howland4.7 miles11
High4.7 miles11
Ambia4.8 miles11
Harmon5.4 miles12
Brookston5.5 miles11
Petty5.9 miles12
Atlas6.0 miles11

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 RoxtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982172The 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.