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Royse City, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Northeast Rockwall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75189. It stands on Bois d'Arc Creek. The Survey maps it on the Royse City quadrangle. 13,508 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 554 feet above sea level.

Royse City within Rockwall County

On record in Royse City

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Royse City grew from 9,349 to 13,508 between 2010 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
20109,349
202013,508+4,159 (+44%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

194 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Royse City between 2005 and 2018, burning about 1,234 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning106
Missing data/not specified/undetermined59
Equipment and vehicle use16
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCROWELL RD FIRE
9 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9641 COUNTY ROAD 1088 - 12076362
8 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOLIDAY
8 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
5 September 2013Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2013-571
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 66 & FM 1138 - 11075351

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rockwall County

Storms near this place

36 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Royse City in 36 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 9 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 6 injuries. 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
April 1996Thunderstorm WindRoyse City6 hurt, $10,000no account filed
November 1994Thunderstorm WindRoyse City$5,000,000Five mobile homes were destroyed, 13 sustained major damage, 42 mobile homes sustained minor damage, and power lines were blown down by high winds. Damage was estimated at $816,000.
April 2016HailRoyse City$2,000,000Amateur radio reported two-inch diameter hail in Royce City, TX.
June 2023HailRoyse City$1,000,000A social media report indicated hail up to baseball size in Royse City.
June 2023HailRoyse City$200,000A trained spotter measured golf ball to ping pong ball sized hail stones in Royse City, near the intersection of FM 548 and Rowdy Dr.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindRoyse City$100,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed a barn, blew a roof off of a house, damaged two other houses, and rolled a travel trailer.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindRoyse City$50,000A church that was being built on Erby Campbell Blvd in Royse City was knocked down by strong thunderstorm winds. Only the wood frame of the building was in place at the time.
April 2007Tornado (EF0)Royse City$35,000The tornado touched down just east of the intersection of Highways 548 and 276. Two barns were completely destroyed and fences were downed. Estimated wind speeds were 80 MPH.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindRoyse City$20,000Numerous trees and power lines downed.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindRoyse City$15,000High winds damaged a power transmission tower.
May 2009Flash FloodRoyse City$7,000The Sheriff's Office reported a truck stuck in high water on HWY 66 in Royse City. The water depth was unknown.
January 2025Flash FloodRoyse City$5,000Royse City PD reported multiple flooded roadways in the city including FM 2642 by Verandah, Hwy 66 east of the police station, Crenshaw Road, FM 548 south of Waterscape, and Shaw Road between FM 2652 and FM 35.
April 2017HailRoyse City$2,000Storm spotter reported half dollar size hail in Royse City.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindRoyse City$2,000Fire Department reported flagpoles bending. According to the EF scale this would require winds near 70 MPH.
February 1999Thunderstorm WindRoyse City$2,000Power lines were blown down from thunderstorm winds.
April 2017HailRoyse City$1,000Storm spotter reported quarter size hail in Royse City.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindRoyse City$1,000Thunderstorm wind gust knocked down power lines across Interstate 30 and MM 76 in Royse City.
June 2015FloodRoyse City$1,000DPS reported Bois D'Arc Creek nearly up to the I-30 bridge near mile marker 78.
June 2015Flash FloodRoyse City$1,000Westbound I-30 near FM 36 was closed due to high water, and service roads along I-30 in Royse City were closed due to high water. Flooding was also reported on FMs 552 and 1141.
April 1993Thunderstorm WindRoyse City$50Two trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
August 2025Flash FloodRoyse City-A public report indicated that the westbound Interstate 30 frontage road was covered with one foot of water near the Erby Campbell exit.
August 2019HailRoyse City-A spotter reported 1.25 inch hail just east of Royse City.
May 2009Flash FloodRoyse City-The Sheriff's Office reported flooding along the I-30 service road at FM 2642 near Royse City.
March 2008Flash FloodRoyse City-Streets were flooded in Royse City and FM 548 was flooded south of town.
January 2005Thunderstorm WindRoyse City-Several trees were blown down.
January 2005Flash FloodRoyse City-Streets flooded in Royse City.
October 2002Flash FloodRoyse City-Highway 66 and FM 35 flooded.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindRoyse City-Power poles were blown down by high winds.
December 2001Flash FloodRoyse City-The service road on the north side of Interstate 30 was closed due to high water.
April 1993HailRoyse City-Two trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
May 2012HailRoyse City-no account filed
May 2007HailRoyse City-no account filed
May 2003HailRoyse City-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindRoyse City-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindRoyse City-no account filed
March 1996HailRoyse City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rockwall 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
Fate3.5 miles16
Blackland5.3 miles11
Mobile City5.5 miles16
Munson5.7 miles11
Rockwall7.4 miles16
Glen Hill9.3 miles16
McLendon9.4 miles13
McLendon-Chisholm9.5 miles13

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 Royse CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q975173The 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 1345732. 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.