BlockRoyalty, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Grandfalls census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79742. The Survey maps it on the Grandfalls quadrangle.
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 Pecos quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Pecos quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Grandfalls quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Crane quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Royalty between 2008 and 2011, burning about 16,115 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/undetermined | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 39 |
| 20 April 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 10 April 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16,000 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ELLISON 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 Royalty: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phipps Sand and Gravel Co | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Royalty in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2010: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Royalty | $12,000 | 14 Utility poles downed in the Royalty area. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Royalty | $2,000 | Wind damage occurred in the city of Grandfalls, including the roofs blown off of two barns, which led to a wall failure of one of them. In addition, shingles were blown off several homes ansd several trees were downed. |
| October 2008 | Hail | Royalty | - | An employee from News West 9, reported quarter to golf ball sized hail 6 miles north of Grandfalls, TX. It lasted a litle over 5 minutes. |
| October 2008 | Hail | Royalty | - | A trained spotter reported golf ball or larger sized hail about 13 miles northwest of Imperial, TX. |
| October 2010 | Hail | Royalty | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Royalty | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grandfalls | 2.4 miles | 9 | |
| Thorntonville | 14.8 miles | 8 | |
| Monahans | 15.4 miles | 8 | |
| Wickett | 15.4 miles | 8 | |
| Pyote | 17.7 miles | 8 | |
| Three Corner Windmill | 20.8 miles | 7 | |
| Barstow | 28.6 miles | 9 |
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 Royalty | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7375132 | 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 1366987. 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.