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Royder, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the South Brazos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77845. The Survey maps it on the Wellborn quadrangle.

Royder within Brazos County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

260 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 260 fires within 5 miles of Royder between 1992 and 2020, burning about 671 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined96
Debris and open burning78
Equipment and vehicle use36
Smoking19
Power generation/transmission/distribution14
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2019Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCHEHIN FIRE
8 September 2017Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMARGRAVES FIRE
8 September 2017Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service17-6258 GREENS PRAIRIE FIRE
7 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service16-5882 TRAILER FIRE
5 September 2014Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service14-0005468 ARRINGTON FIRE
29 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTAHTCHER FIRE
27 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13200 S DOWLING RD 12-0001099
24 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service20365 FM 2154

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brazos 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
Wellborn0.5 miles10
Wicker0.8 miles10
Enright1.6 miles10
Koppe3.3 miles10
Spear5.4 miles10
Peach Creek5.9 miles9
Millican6.8 miles14
College Station7.1 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.

Wikidata item Q122570340The 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 1380467. 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.